Email: mjd@hum.ku.dk
Website : www.driscoll.dk
KU staff profile: https://nors.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/83442
M. J. Driscoll is Professor of Old Norse Philology at the Arnamagnæan Institute, a research centre
within the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He holds
degrees from the University of Stirling (BA (Hons.) 1979), Háskóli Íslands (Cand.mag. 1988) and
Oxford University (DPhil 1994).
His research interests include manuscript and textual studies, particularly in the area of late pre-
modern Icelandic. He also has a long-standing interest in the Digital Humanities, and served for
many years on the technical council of the Text Encoding Initiative. In this capacity he chaired the
TEI Task Force on Manuscript Description (2003-5), whose job was the definition of a module for
the description of text-bearing artefacts.
His publications include over 50 articles on various aspects of pre-modern Icelandic literature,
editions and translations of a number of medieval and post-medieval Icelandic works, as well as
the monograph The unwashed children of Eve: The production, dissemination and reception of
popular literature in post-Reformation Iceland (Enfield Lock, 1997).
He has for years been involved in the organisation of the international conference on “The care
and conservation of manuscripts”, held every two years in Copenhagen, and has edited the last
eight volumes of the conference's proceedings, published by Museum Tusculanum Press.