| Postgraduate research supervision |
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| Kayla Kemhadjian, 'The Semantics of Self-Killing in Old English Language, Literature and Culture, c. 750–1150' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2018-22 |
| Joseph St John, 'A Vernacular and Christian Genesis: The Adaptation of Genesis Myths in Beowulf and Old English Old Testament Verse' |
Malta: Faculty of Arts |
2017-22 |
| Isobel Robertson, 'Wayland Smith: A Cultural-historical Biography' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2016-20 |
| Gesner Las Casas Brito Filho, 'The Relationship between the Earthly World, Heaven and Hell in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11' |
Leeds: School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies |
2014-18 |
| Rose Sawyer, 'Child Substitution: A New Approach to the Changeling Motif in Medieval European Culture' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2014-18 |
| Stephen Basdeo, 'The Changing Faces of Robin Hood, c. 1700-c. 1900: Rethinking Gentrification in the Post-Medieval Tradition' |
Leeds Trinity University |
2014-18 |
| Paul Gorton, 'Reassessing Bede: Power and Identity in Fourth- to Eighth-century Britain, Focusing on Northumbria' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2013-21 |
| Florian Schreck, 'Science in Medieval Fiction: The Reception of Learned Writing on Natural History in Old Icelandic Romance 1300-1550' |
Bergen: Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier |
2013-18 |
| Catalin Taranu, 'The Making of Poetic History in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2012-16 |
| Victoria Cooper, 'Fantasies of the North: Medievalism and Identity in Skyrim' |
Leeds: School of English |
2012-16 |
| Lynda Taylor, 'The Cultural Significance of Elves in Northern European Balladry' |
Leeds: School of English |
2011-14 |
| Sami Kalliosaari, 'The Ideologies of Anglo-Saxon Kingship' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2010-18 |
| Katherine Miller, 'The Semantic Field of Slavery in Old English' |
Leeds: School of English |
2010-14 |
| Helen Price, 'Human and Nonhuman in Anglo-Saxon and British Postwar Poetry: Reshaping Literary Ecology' |
Leeds: School of English |
2010-13 |
| Sheryl McDonald Werronen, 'Transforming Popular Romance on the Edge of the World: Nítíða saga in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iceland' |
Leeds: School of English |
2009-13 |
| Angela Smith, 'King Æthelstan in the English, Continental and Scandinavian Traditions of the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2008-13 |
| Erika Sigurdson, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Administrative Structures, Literacy and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2008-11 |
| Doctoral examining |
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| Roland Brennan, 'Pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon Worship. A Semantic Study' |
UCL: Department of English Language and Literature |
2021 |
| Annika Christiansen, '"Kvæði í Føroyskari Samtíð" Exploring Ballads as Popular Culture and Heritage in Contemporary Faroese Culture' |
Leeds: School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies |
2020 |
| Claire Organ, 'Colour in the Eddic Mythological Poems' |
Aberdeen: Centre for Scandinavian Studies |
2019 |
| Jonathan Hui, 'The Matter of Gautland' |
Cambridge: Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic |
2018 |
| Steven Breeze, 'Performance in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Imagination ' |
Birkbeck: English and Humanities |
2018 |
| Robert Halstead, 'The Stone Sculpture of Anglo-Scandinavian Yorkshire in its Landscape Context' |
Leeds: School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies |
2016 |
| Declan Taggart, 'Understanding Diversity in Old Norse Religion, Taking Þórr as a Case Study' |
Aberdeen: Centre for Scandinavian Studies |
2015 |
| Ruarigh Dale, 'Berserkir: A Re-Examination of the Phenomenon in Literature and Life' |
Nottingham: School of English |
2014 |
| Ricky Broome, 'Approaches to Community and Otherness in the Late Merovingian and Early Carolingian Periods' |
Leeds: School of History |
2014 |
| Tim Brinded, 'The Meanings of Late Medieval and Early Modern Giants: An Analysis Using English Literary, Visual and Material Sources' |
Chichester: Department of History |
2014 |
| Eric Lacey, 'Birds and Bird-Lore in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England' |
UCL |
2014 |
| Michelle Mary Poellinger, 'Violence in Later Middle English Arthurian Romance' |
Leeds: School of English |
2013 |
| Paul B. Sturtevant, 'Based on a True History? The Impact of Popular "Medieval Film" on the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2010 |
| Rebecca Fisher, 'Writing Charms: The Transmission and Performance of Charms in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond' |
Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics |
2010 |
| Jenni Bergman, 'The Significant Other: A Literary History of Elves' |
Cardiff, School of English, Communication and Philosophy |
2011 |
| Seminar courses, master's level |
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| Medieval English (master's; team-taught) |
Leeds: Institude for Medieval Studies |
2014- |
| Old Norse (master's) |
Leeds: Institude for Medieval Studies |
2014- |
| Medieval bodies (master's; team-taught) |
Leeds: Institude for Medieval Studies |
2014- |
| Vikings, Saxons and heroic culture (master's; team-taught) |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies |
2008-18 |
| Old and new beliefs in medieval Icelandic literature: from pagan to Christian (master's) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-13 |
| Texts and the Word: Christian traditions in Old English literature (master's) |
Leeds: School of English |
2007-9 |
| Inventing the Middle Ages (master's; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2007-9 |
| Seminar courses, undergraduate level |
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| Folklore and Mythology (levels 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2014- |
| Queens, Vikings, Poets, and Dragons: Old English and Early Medieval Britain (levels 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2018- |
| Old English! (levels 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2009-14 |
| Shieldmaidens, Matriarchs and Monsters: Women in Medieval Scandinavian Literature (levels 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-16 |
| Modern Icelandic Language and Culture (level 1) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-18 |
| Medieval Icelandic Language and Culture (level 1) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-19 |
| Beowulf (level 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-9 |
| Old Norse Mythology (level 2/3) |
Leeds: School of English |
2007 |
| Witch-crazes in early modern Scotland and Europe: belief, ideology and power |
Helsinki: Renvall Institute |
2007 |
| Scandinavia and the British Isles, 700-1200 |
Helsinki: Renvall Institute |
2007 |
| Old and new beliefs in medieval Scandinavia: from pagan to Christian, 700-1300 |
Helsinki: Renvall Institute |
2006 |
| Wenches, widows, wives and witches: women in Anglo-Saxon England |
Helsinki: Department of English |
2006 |
| Medieval and renaissance drama 1400-1603 (honours; team-taught) |
Glasgow: School of English |
2005 |
| Peer-reviewing and web-weaving training (postgraduate) |
Glasgow: Faculty of Arts |
2004-5 |
| English academic writing (intermediate) |
Helsinki: Department of English |
2004 |
| Lectures |
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| Medieval Literature (level 2; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2018- |
| Medieval English: Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain-Poet (level 2; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2007-17 |
| Introducing Medieval European Literature (level 1; team-taught) |
2012- |
| Magic and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (levels 2/3; team-taught) |
2012- |
| Drama: Reading and Interpretation (level 1; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2013 |
| Poetry: Reading and Interpretation (level 1; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2013 |
| Prose: Reading and Interpretation (level 1; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2009 |
| Language Methodologies and Research Methods (level 1; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-13 |
| English in Time/English in Time and Space (level 2; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2009, 2012 |
| Exploring Medieval Literature (level 1; team-taught) |
2008-12 |
| Research Methods (master's level; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-11 |
| The history of the Nordic countries (team-taught) |
Helsinki: Renvall Institute |
2007 |
| SharpEdge Writing Skills Course (postgraduate; team-taught) |
Glasgow: Arts and Humanities Graduate School |
2006 |
| Old Icelandic literature (honours; team-taught) |
Glasgow: Department of English Language |
2001-2004 |
| Tutorials on team-taught modules |
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| Medieval Literature (level 2; team-taught) |
Leeds: School of English |
2018- |
| Medieval English: Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain-Poet (level 2) |
Leeds: School of English |
2007-17 |
| Exploring Medieval Literature (level 1) |
Leeds: School of English |
2008-12 |
| SharpEdge Writing Skills Course (postgraduate; team-taught) |
Glasgow: Arts and Humanities Graduate School |
2006 |
| Medieval history (level 2) |
Glasgow: Department of History |
2005 |
| Medieval English (level 2) |
Glasgow: Department of English Language |
2004-5 |
| English language and literature (level 2) |
Stirling: Department of English Studies |
2005 |
| Celtic civilisation (level 1) |
Glasgow: Department of Celtic |
2004-5 |
| Medieval history (level 1) |
Glasgow: Department of History |
2002-5 |
| English language (level 1) |
Glasgow: Department of English Language |
2002-5 |
| Informal reading groups |
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| Old Icelandic |
Glasgow, Helsinki, Leeds |
2002, 2005- |
| Middle Welsh (administrative support, and participation, only!) |
Helsinki |
2005-7 |
| Old English |
Glasgow |
2001-3 |