Clare Davidson completed her PhD in medieval literature at the University of Western Australia. She is a research fellow at UWA and associate investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research examines the physiology of arousal in fourteenth-century England. Clare has published with The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Chaucer Review and is currently working on her first book, Vernacular Arousal: The Middle English Body in Love.