Emma-Catherine Wilson
DPhil Candidate
Hertford College
Thesis title: Heraldic Narratives: Chivalry, Violence, and Nationalism in Late-Medieval England
Supervisor: Laura Ashe
Research Interests: Heralds, Chivalry, Romances, Book Culture, Cultural History, Tournaments, Anglo-French Relations
Doctoral Research: My DPhil research explores the book-culture and literary ambitions of late-medieval English heralds. More specifically, I am interested in heralds’ engagement with the conventions of vernacular romance and their guiding hand in shaping aristocrats’ performance of chivalry. My research is supervised by Professor Laura Ashe and is co-funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP, the Clarendon Fund, and All Souls College.
Publications:
- 'An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath,' [6 pages] forthcoming in Notes & Queries. Accepted for publication on 17 September 2024. An advance version of this article is now available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae122
- 'The Four Fanciful Challenge Letters of the English Heraldic Miscellany London, College of Arms, MS L6,' [40 pages] forthcoming in Medium Ævum. Accepted for publication on 29 November 2023.
- 'Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon, Translatio Studii et Imperii, and the Anglo-French Cultural Politics of the Fourteenth Century,' New Medieval Literatures, vol. 24 (2024): pp. 133-67. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6380568.10
- 'Heraldic Handbooks and the Discourse of Chivalric Allegory: The Case of the Eltham Challenge Letters of 1400,' Florilegium, vol. 37, 2020 (2024): pp. 112-150. https://doi.org/10.3138/flor-2021-0005
Teaching Experience:
- Lecturer, Department of English Literature, University of Reading: October 2024 - Present
- I am currently a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, where I teach the course EN2MLR: Myth, Legend, and Romance. In this role, I lecture and lead seminar discussions on a wide variety of medieval English texts, ranging from Beowulf to The Canterbury Tales and Arthurian romance.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of English, University of Oxford: October 2024 - Present
- I am currently a graduate teaching assistant on the Faculty of English's FHS Paper 6 course "Tragedy." This transhistorical course explores tragedy from ancient Greek plays up to twenty-first century postcolonial novels.
- External Tutor, Worcester College, University of Oxford: January 2024 - March 2024
- I taught the undergraduate FHS Paper 2 course on literature in English written between 1350 and 1550. I was responsible for teaching commentary sessions on Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and tutorials with pairs of students on their choice of texts from the period.
- Dissertation Supervisor, Mansfield College, University of Oxford: October 2023 - February 2024
- I supervised an undergraduate dissertation on the anxieties of chivalry betrayed in Sir Thomas Malory's characterization of Lancelot in Le Morte Darthur.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Ottawa: September 2020 - April 2022
- I assisted teaching, lead discussion groups, and marked papers for the courses ‘Workshop in Essay Writing’ (ENG 1100), ‘Business English’ (ENG 1131), and ‘Technical Report Writing’ (ENG 1112).