Mary Kate Hurley is Director of Assessment of the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, where she also serves as an associate professor of medieval literature at Ohio University, where she has taught in the English Department since Fall 2013. She received her PhD from Columbia University, and completed her undergraduate work at Wake Forest University.

Her writing has appeared in Review of English Studies, Exemplaria, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Literature Compass, and Postmedieval, as well as many edited collections.  With Elizabeth Allen (UC-Irvine) and Gina Marie Hurley (Yale University), she co-edited a special cluster of essays in Exemplaria called “The Spaces and Times of Crisis” (2022). She co-edited a 2017 special issue of Postmedieval titled “Speaking Across Tongues,” with Jonathan Hsy and A.B. Kraebel. Her first monograph, Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England was published in the Ohio State University Press Interventions series in July 2021.  She is presently at work on a project tentatively titled “The Speculative Medieval,” which uses theories of speculative fiction and cognitive estrangement to explore the literary tradition of the medieval computus.

Her work has received grants from Wake Forest University, Columbia University, Ohio University, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Whiting Foundation.