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Larrington, Dr Carolyne
Job Title: Supernumerary Teaching Fellow
College: St John's
Period/ Subject: Medieval
Email address: carolyne.larrington@sjc.ox.ac.uk 
Research Interests:
In the next two to five years I hope to see the publication of my book on sibling relations in medieval European literatures. When this project is complete, I intend to continue developing my interest in emotion in medieval literature, in particular in Arthurian contexts, working with colleagues in the Netherlands and in Durham in this area. We will co-edit a selection of essays from this year’s International Arthurian Congress on ‘Arthurian Emotion’, and I can foresee further research in this area, investigating specific emotions, their linguistic and imagined somatic expression, and their contexts.
In the medium term I am also planning to write an accessible companion to eddic poetry to accompany a revision of my translation of the Poetic Edda. This will draw upon the findings of the Frankfurt Kommentar-project, and mediate the philological discussions in this series, incorporated into a series of chapters suggesting interpretations of the poetry in relation to possible contexts of composition and in terms of their transmission in the thirteenth century and beyond.
I will also develop my interests in the reception of Old Norse material in modern English and modern Icelandic contexts; I am contributing to the ‘Magic of Books’ exhibition being planned for the Bodleian Library during this period by curating a case relating to the reception of heroic eddic poetry in nineteenth-century and subsequent material, particularly in literature for children and young adults.
Teaching Areas:
Old English; Middle English; Old Icelandic; History of the Language; Romance.
Recent Publications:
King Arthur’s Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition. (London: IB Tauris, 2006).
(With Peter Robinson), Sólarljóð in Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, vol VII, Part 1, gen. ed. M. Clunies Ross (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), 287-357.
‘The Enchantress, the Knight and the Cleric: Authorial Surrogates in Arthurian Romance’, Arthurian Literature 25, (2008), 43-65.
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