CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lecturer in Medieval Literature
School of English
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
| Office Telephone: | +44(0) 113 343 4758 |
| Office Fax: | +44(0) 113 343 4774 |
| Active email: | c.j.batt@leeds.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/pages/staffindex.php?file=batt |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Gender studies
Anglo-Norman literature
Later medieval literature in English
Malory
Relations between literature in French and English
Translation
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Publications include Malory's 'Morte Darthur': Remaking Arthurian Tradition, the editorship of Essays on Thomas Hoccleve, and articles on the Gawain-Poet, Caxton and Jacobus de Cessolis, Clemence of Barking, V.S. Naipaul, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Malory. Other projects include work on Henry, Duke of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines and devotional literature, and further research on Thomas Hoccleve.
Please see URL above for additional publications.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Bi- and tri-lingual conditions for the production of insular later medieval literature, incl. current project on Henry, Duke of Lancaster's Book of Holy Medicine, which is concerned to trace the cultural and devotional background to the text. I am also interested in translation, in a broader rhetorical and cultural, as well as linguistic, sense.
History of the Medieval Book:
I have done some work on book ownership for studies on Malory, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, and Hoccleve.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
I have looked briefly at registers of medieval chronicle for comparative purposes for my Malory book.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Kate Jackson (School of English): Chaucer and marriage.
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students, in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions (if research/teaching matches), and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
ENGL2013 The Medieval Renascence; module co-ordinator and lecturer.
ENGL2011 Renaissance Literature; seminar tutor.
Levels 2/3: ENGL2540 The Development of the Arthurian Legend
MA: Chaucer: Dream-Visions and story-Collections.
For the Centre for Medieval Studies MA (team-taught modules):
MEDV5110 Research Methods and Bibliography
MEDV5210 Representing Women in Medieval Literature
MEDV Cultures in Contact: Travel, Trade, and the Spread of Ideas.
MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
Anglo-Norman culture and/or Multilingualism.
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