"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne... "
A second year Ph.D student at the Centre, I combine the traditional bibliographical fields of codicology and palaeography with literary analysis. One of my favourite papers, "Chaucer's Frankenstein Text", presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association, uses a formalist approach to map out how Chaucer negotiates medieval notions of unity and miscellaneity. Over the summer, I spent five weeks in Europe, presenting at conferences and exploring archives in Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge. My recent work on an edition of the Middle English life of St. Petronilla prompted an interest in the kinds of vernacular  Pursuing this, my major field topic asks how the nature of specific sites of manuscript production in England produced texts and how those texts in turn shaped the nature of literary communities from 1200-1420. Recent Projects: "Sacred Communities: The Evolving Audiences of the Life of Saint Dunstan", New Medieval Literatures (Proposed) "What's in a Paraph? Auchinleck Scribe 2 and the West Midlands", The Early Book Society Conference (July 2009) "The Modular Book: Textual Production and the South English Legendary", International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2009) Major Field Title: Communities of Literary Production, 1200-1420 Major Field Committee: Dr. Alexandra Gillespie (Adviser) Dr. Will Robins Dr. David Townsend |
