Sheila Fisher is Professor of English at Trinity College (Hartford). She is the author of Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy: A Study of Value and Its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales , and the editor (with Janet E. Halley) of Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism , as well as essays on the Gawain -poet, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe.