Meg Lamont
Assistant Head of School, English Instructor
Meg Lamont received her A.B. in English and American Literature from Brown University in 1999, where she graduated magna cum laude (Brown’s highest honors) and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2007 she received her Ph.D. in English Literature from UCLA, specializing in the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Before coming to Stanford OHS she was an assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University, where she taught advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. She has experience teaching literature from the ancient world through the 21st century. A few of her favorite authors are Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Wilfred Owen, and Virginia Woolf.
On weekends Meg can usually be found paddleboarding, hiking, or, of course, curled up somewhere with a book, often with her children Citlali and Fernando.
Publications
Lamont, Meg. "When a Text Isn't Funny Anymore: Ovid's Art of Love." Literary Matters 9.2, 2016
Lamont, Margaret. “When are Saxons ‘Ænglisc’? Language and Readerly Identity in Laȝamon’s Brut.” In Lawman in His Context. Eds. Rosamund Allen and Carole Weinberg. 2012
Lamont, Margaret. “Hengist: Afterlives.” in Medieval Heroes and Anti-Heroes. Eds. Laura Ashe and Neil Cartlidge. Boydell & Brewer. 2012
Lamont, Margaret. “The Rouse Collection: ‘Genealogical’ History and the English Roll.” Viator, Special Issue, 2011
Lamont, Margaret. “The Passion of Saint Alban, by William of St. Albans.” In The Life of St. Alban, The French of England Translation Series (FRETS). Ed and trans. (together with Thomas O’Donnell). ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2010
Lamont, Margaret. “Becoming English: Ronwenne’s Wassail, Language, and National Identity in the Middle English Prose Brut.” Studies in Philology, Summer 2010
Lamont, Margaret. ‘Kynde Bloode’: Remaking Englishness in the Middle English Prose Brut. Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, 2007