Research

I recently completed my doctorate, which was a comparative project exploring late medieval poetry composed about the Virgin Mary in poetic competitions in towns and cities. I am interested in the way these lyrics reflect the urban spaces in which they were written, and the interplay between the ludic and devotional elements of their performance context.  My new project looks and play in pre-modern women's religious writing. 

I am currently Stipendiary Lecturer in German at St Hugh's and St Anne's, where I teach translation for all year groups, the Prelims literature course, and medieval literature papers for the Final Honours School. I previously held a similar post at Somerville.

I enjoy doing outreach work and have offered several taster sessions students interested in languages and medieval studies.

Teaching

German

Translation from and into German for Prelims and FHS 

German Prelims Paper III (poetry and drama) & IV (prose)

Introduction to Medieval Studies Paper XII

German FHS Paper IX - medieval set texts 

German FHS Paper VI - medieval period paper

German FHS Paper VIII - early part of the modern period paper

German Special Subject: Gottfried von Strasbourg's Tristan and Courtly Culture

French

Medieval French lyric in translation - tutorials and classes on troubadour, trouvère and late lyric for students from the English Faculty

French Paper IX - medieval set texts 

Late Lyric for French FHS Paper VI

Unseen Translation French FHS Paper IIa 

Chastelaine de Vergy French Prelims Paper IV