Jessica Rosenfeld’s teaching and research interests traverse English and continental medieval literature as well as medieval and modern moral philosophy and literary theory. She is currently engaged in a book project titled, Love after Aristotle: The Ethics of Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry, which explores the influence of the belated reception of Aristotelian ethics on the way medieval philosophers and poets wrote about love, pleasure, labor, and human happiness. Her project also examines the legacy of “courtly love” in modern theories about desire and ethics, especially the psychoanalytic ethics of Jacques Lacan. Her other current topics of research include physical and social suffering in medieval women’s religious writing and the literary, philosophical, and penitential history of envy. Her essays are forthcoming in the collection The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance in the Middle Ages and the journal New Medieval Literatures.