The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700

Joe Stadolnik is a researcher and editor based in Chicago. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and at the Institute for Advanced Studies at UCL. He is working on a biography, The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandão, and an academic monograph about medieval alchemy and genre.

Joe Stadolnik

Alchemy Under the Hood

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Chaucer: A European Life

Chaucer’s Traces

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Joe Stadolnik is a researcher and editor based in Chicago. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago and at the Institute for Advanced Studies at UCL. He is working on a biography, The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandão, and an academic monograph about medieval alchemy and genre.