Katherine Churchill earned her PhD from the Department of English at UVA in 2025, where she studied and taught medieval literature. Her dissertation project, The Archival Turn: Poetry and Posterity in Late Medieval England and France, traced how changes in the storage and organization of books and documents transformed representations of futurity in fourteenth- and fifteenth- century literature. In her work, she shows how the history of medieval Jewish communities in England dovetails with the history of the English archive as an institution, and how the idea of a coherent English national textual heritage emerged through antisemitic laws and violence.