Medieval English literature and philology
Elected 2019
Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Bristol
The languages and literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; Medieval Latin; Old Norse-Icelandic; oral tradition
History of medieval papal administration and jurisdiction; Scandinavian history in the Middle Ages; medieval diplomatics and palaeography.
Welsh literature, medieval Welsh poetry, Dafydd ap Gwilym, textual transmission, lexicon, translation