Penelope Billings Reed Doob (August 13, 1943 — March 11, 2017) was an American-born Canadian medievalist, dance scholar, and medical researcher.
[1] She completed doctoral studies in 1969 at Stanford University, with a dissertation that became her first book, Nebuchadnezzar's Children: Conventions of Madness in Medieval Literature (1974).
[3] Later books by Doob included The Idea of the Labyrinth from the Classical Period through the Middle Ages (1990); and, with Charlotte Morse and Marjorie Woods, The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies.
[6] Doob conducted interviews on dance for CBC Radio from 1976 to 1979, and wrote program notes for the National Ballet of Canada.
Penelope Reed Doob retired from York University in 2014 and died in 2017, after many years with Parkinson's disease.