CONTACT INFORMATION:
Director of Studies
Institute for Medieval Studies
Parkinson 403
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
| Office Telephone: | +44 (0)113 343 3579 or +44 (0)113 343 3620 |
| Office Fax: | :+44 (0) 113 343 3616 |
| Active email: | m.t.swan@leeds.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cms |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Old English homiletic prose before and after the Norman Conquest.
Textual transmission, compilation techniques and reader-response in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Gender and Anglo-Saxon religious culture.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Publications include Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, co-edited with Elaine Treharne; articles on Old English apocryphal texts, St Veronica, memory as a composition techniue, and authorship and anonymity.
Current projects include an edition of the twelfth-century homiletic manuscript and studies of post-Conquest Old English in the West Midlands and gender and preaching in Anglo-Saxon England.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I work on post-Conquest Old English in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and so some of my work deals with the interface between English, Anglo-Norman and Latin.
History of the Medieval Book:
I work on Old English textual and manuscript transmission.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
I supervise a PhD student who is working on Æthweard's Chronicon.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Alexandra Domingue, Eriugena and Anglo-Saxon Verse (co- supervised with Ian Wood)
James Roberts, The Chronicon Æthelweardi and its Context (co- supervised with Ian Wood)
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested if research interests match.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Please see URL above.
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