Alaric Hall, CV

Employment

Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds (junior lecturer 2007-16, senior lecturer 2016-).

Research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2005-7).

Education

Ph.D. (2001-4) on 'The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England', Department of English Language, University of Glasgow (2003-4 at Department of English, University of Helsinki).

M.Phil. (taught) (2000-1) in Medieval Studies, Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Distinction.

B.A. (1997-2000) in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Magdalene College, Cambridge. Part I: 1st; part II: 2/1.

Secondary education (1991-97) at Aylesbury Grammar School, including A-levels in Latin, History and English.

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2008-11), University of Leeds; Foundation Language Study (Arabic) (2016-18), Leeds Beckett University.

Publications and teaching

For Alaric's publications (and free-access texts thereof) see publications. For details of Alaric's teaching, supervising and examining, present and past, see teaching.

Other Experience and Activities

Research funding

ISK52,212,500 (~£300,000) for 'Riches to rags: The popularisation of rímur poetry in post-medieval Iceland' (Rannís, 2025-28) [co-investigator]
ISK7,350,000 (~£47,000) for 'Gullskinna. Postmedieval transmission and reception of a lost medieval parchment-codex' (Rannís, 2015-18) [co-investigator]
£20,531 for 'Constructing crisis: Icelandic cultural responses to the 2008 financial crisis' (Leverhulme Trust, 2013-14).
£2,445 for 'Sigrgarðs saga frækna: the manuscript tradition' (British Academy, 2009).
£4,000 project funding + £1,000 honorarium, Leeds University Teaching Fellowship (University of Leeds, 2009).
€2,110 for Hel-Lex II conferences on English historical lexis, Department of English, University of Helsinki (Finnish Academy, 2005).

Full texts of some grant applications are available here.

Keynotes etc.

'Elves, terrorists, and Iceland: from Christianisation to financial crisis', Supernatural Creatures: from Elf-Shot to Shrek (University of Łódź, 2014).
The autumn 2011 Beck Lectures in Icelandic Literature and Culture at the University of Victoria.

Positions of responsibility (scholarly)

Editor or Leeds Studies in English and its success Leeds Medieval Studies (2009-; editioral board member 2007-).
External examiner, BA Scandinavian Studies, University College London (2021-).
External examiner, BA English, University of Hull (2017-21).
Editorial assistant for Viking and Medieval Scandinavia (2008-14).
Council member of the Viking Society for Northern Research (2009-11, 2014-17).
Vice-chair of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies (2006-8).

Positions of responsibility (administrative, University of Leeds)

School of English: fire warden (2012-); director of personal tutoring (2012-13); undergraduate admissions tutor (2014-19); deputy director of student education (2024-).
Institute for Medieval Studies: external audit committee (2010); International Medieval Congress standing committee (2010-14, 2022-); IMS steering committee (2011-16, 2022-); director (2019-22).
University and College Union: joint honorary secretary 2018-19; membership secretary 2019-21; treasurer 2021-23.
Senate: elected member 2019-22.

Other pastimes

Alaric's favourite non-academic pastime is playing Latin American and African percussion. Back in the good old days he also used to call for ceilidhs. In Helsinki he played with Johnny Badapple, in Glasgow with Unkle Bob, and in Cambridge with the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band (and various peripherally related projects, including a brief but groovy band with Harriet Earis), and the Brazilian Samba group Arco Iris. On and off, Alaric also spends quite a lot of time messing about learning things like Finnish, Swedish, French, Icelandic, Arabic, and Hebrew.

For Alaric's contributions to Wikipedia, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alarichall.