Jonathan Hsy specializes in late medieval literature and culture, and his research and teaching interests span the fields of translation studies and disability theory. His first book, Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (Ohio State University Press, 2013), investigated the work of polyglot urban writers across the late medieval and early Tudor eras. His current book project, Disability and Life Writing: Authorship as Advocacy, Then and Now, explores writing by medieval authors who self-identified as blind or deaf. This approach not only reveals the complex meanings of deafness and blindness in the distant past, but it also asks how older strategies of autobiography might engage with contemporary activist-oriented disability theory. Professor Hsy is the founding Co-Director (with Alexa Huang) of the GW Digital Humanities Institute, and he is involved in many online and collaborative scholarly endeavors. He blogs at In The Middle (a group medieval studies website), serves on the Editorial Board of the Digital Medieval Disability Glossary, and is collaborating with Candace Barrington on Global Chaucers, an emergent online archive of modern adaptations of Chaucer in non-Anglophone settings. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the BABEL Working Group, as well as the Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession for the Modern Language Association of America.