Academics

Welcome

I joined Keble in 2010 as the College Lecturer in Old and Middle English. I teach Moderations Paper 3 (Old English), Final Honour Schools Paper 3 (Middle English) and Final Honour Schools Paper 1 (The English Language), as well as medieval special topics and authors.

Before coming to Keble, I was a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer at St Anne’s and Merton Colleges from 2008-2010. I also worked on the Oxford University Computing Services’ Woruldhord Project, an online resource for students and teachers of Old English, from July-October 2010 (http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/). I completed my Masters at Christ Church in 2006, and my DPhil in 2010. I took my undergraduate degrees, which were in English and Law, at the University of Melbourne in 2005.

Research Interests

My work is primarily concerned with the depiction of masculinity, violence and conflict in the late Middle Ages. My doctoral research focused specifically on the representation of knighthood and chivalry in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Scotland, and I am now working to extend this research into a more wide-ranging comparative study of conflict and conflict-resolution in late medieval and early modern Scotland and England. I have also published shorter articles on the Scottish Alexander and Arthurian traditions, the politics of translation in Gavin Douglas’ 1513 translation of the Aeneid and gender and sexuality in Malory’s Morte Arthur.

I also possess a strong research interest in Digital Humanities, and particularly in the potential for online editions to make manuscript and print witnesses more widely available to students and researchers.

Publications:

‘“The Wild Fury of Turnus Now Lies Slain”: Love, War and the Medieval Other in Gavin Douglas’ Eneados’, chapter in Jessica Meyer and Heather Ellis, eds., Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

‘“Als for the worthynes of þe romance”: Exploitation of Genre in the Buik of King Alexander the Conqueror’, chapter in Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevic and Judith Weiss eds., The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010.

Review, ‘Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England’ by Melissa Furrow. Review of English Studies. First published online June 16, 2010.

‘Virginity, sexuality, repression and return in The Tale of the Sankgreal’, article in Kate McClune and David Clark, ed., Blood, Sex, Malory, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011.

‘“Methink It Grete Skill”: Conciliation, Negotiation and Forgiveness in Three Fifteenth-Century Scottish Romances’, chapter in J. Derrick McClure and Janet Hadley Williams, ed., ‘Fresche fontanis’: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars, 2012).   

‘“Of materis that strange are and vnkynd”: Exploration, Conquest and Imperialism in the “Journey to Paradise” section of Gilbert Hay’s Buik of Alexander þe Conqueror’ (with Emily Wingfield), chapter in Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Margaret Bridges, Corinne Jouanno and Jean-Yves Tilliette, ed., Alexander Redivivus (forthcoming, Brepols, 2012).