I am a literary historian who works at the intersections of medieval literature, transgender studies, and the history of the body. My book project, Chronic Bodies: Transforming Nature in Medieval English Literature details a literary history of body transformation within medieval discourses of nature. Chronic Bodies reveals the ways in which medieval understandings of nature inform discourses of sexuality, gender, and embodiment because the problems of nature – of being natural – are rooted in the dialectics of production and reproduction. I show how fourteenth-century authors like Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and William Langland, invoke the cultural power of Nature and “the natural” to highlight the possibilities and presumed limits of the body’s transformative potential and capacity to self-create.