Professor
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Professor of English Literature
English
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medieval Literature, Drama and Visual Arts
With specific interests in Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, Chronicles, the Middle English Prose Brut, Manuscripts and Early Book Culture, Medieval Scribes, Mystery and Morality Plays, John Hardyng, Thomas Malory, John Rous, fifteenth-century literature, the relationship between literature and art, and medieval influences on popular culture (Game of Thrones etc.).
Research themes: Chivalry, Kingship, Sovereignty, Myth, Storytelling, Art, Animals, Drama, Performing Arts, Identity, Political Consciousness, Maps, Medieval Culture.
Mermaids in Literature, Art and Culture
With specific interests in the cultural development of the mermaid across time, medieval mermaids, mermaids of the British Isles, literature, folklore, and art.
Research themes: mythical creatures, blue humanities, landscape and identity formation, folklore, art, island identities, gender.
Historical Writing and Political Discourse
With specific interests in Medieval Chronicles, Historical Writing, Kingship, Advice to Princes literature, Political Writing, and Genealogies.
Research themes: Uses of the Past, Kingship, Queens, Inheritance and Legitimacy, Origin Myths, Anglo-Scottish Relations, and Medieval Political Thought.