Mary Dockray-Miller

Mary Dockray-Miller (born 1965) is an American scholar of early medieval England and women’s educational history, best known for her work on gender in the pre-Conquest period. She has

published on female saints, on Beowulf, and on religious women. She was professor of English at Lesley University, where she taught from 2000-2024 before being laid off as part of a restructuring process that eliminated 30 faculty jobs, most in the traditional liberal arts and sciences.{{cite web |last1=Burns |first1=Hilary |title=Lesley University is laying off faculty members, cutting programs amid budget crunch |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/05/metro/lesley-university-is-laying-off-faculty-members-amid-budget-crunch/?event=event12 |website=Boston Globe}}{{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Marc |title=Lesley restructuring will cut four programs, refocusing on education, mental health, arts |url=https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/10/04/lesley-restructuring-will-cut-four-programs-refocusing-on-education-mental-health-arts/ |website=Cambridge Day|date=4 October 2023 }}

Dockray-Miller's first monograph was Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (St. Martin's Press, 2000), which utilized postmodern gender theory (the work of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and others) to reinvestigate historical elements, such as double houses and early English religious women, and literature, including Beowulf. At the time, it was "the first and only monograph

on motherhood to appear in Anglo-Saxon studies".{{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Stacy |title="Rev. of Dockray-Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England". |journal=Arthuriana |date=2002 |volume=12 |pages=124–26 |doi=10.1353/art.2002.0076 |jstor=2903816 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2903816}} She edited the Wilton Chronicle in Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience (Brepols, 2009)

and published a biography of Judith of Flanders (c.1031-1094) in 2015. She has published numerous articles in medieval studies, English studies, and gender studies journals; she is a contributor to the Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (Greenwood, 1998), the Dictionary of National Biography, and other reference works.