My research hitherto has mostly focused on the construction and portrayal of gender and emotion, especially masculinity and anger, in Old Norse literature. Based on my doctoral thesis, my forthcoming monograph Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders (OUP) shows, among other things, how anger’s mode of expression institutes and upholds gender configurations. Other publications include the chapter ‘Anger – reiði’ in Saga Emotions, edited by Carolyne Larrington, Gareth Lloyd Evans, and Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, and the chapter ‘Anger’ in Emotion, Illness, and Medicine in the Medieval North, edited by Caroline R. Batten and Sif Rikhardsdottir. I have also published on Middle English lyric poetry. My current research project, ‘Neuro-Norse’, draws on the still-developing discipline of literary neurodiversity studies to examine the presentation of neurodivergent characters in Old Norse literature.
I am a lecturer in medieval literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and St Anne’s College, Oxford. I hold a BA in English Literature from Durham University, an MSt in Medieval English from Mansfield College, Oxford, and a DPhil (PhD) in Old Norse literature from St Anne’s College, Oxford. I have taught Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, and the history of the English language at several Oxford colleges, including St Anne’s, St Hilda’s, University College, Worcester, Exeter, and Pembroke. In 2021-22, I was Departmental Lecturer in Old Norse at the University of Oxford’s English Faculty.
Undergraduate:
· Prelims Paper 1a (Introduction to English Language)
· Prelims Paper 2 (Literature in English, 650-1350)
· Course I FHS Paper 2 (Literature in English, 1350-1550)
· Course II FHS Paper 1 (Literature in English, 650-1100)
· Course II FHS Paper 2 (Medieval English and Related Literatures, 1066-1550)
· Course II FHS Paper 3 (Literature in English, 1350-1550)
Recent Publications
Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
‘Anger’, in Emotion, Illness and Medicine in the Medieval North, ed. Caroline R. Batten and Sif Rikhardsdottir (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
‘Reiði – Anger’, in Saga Emotions, Carolyne Larrington, Gareth Lloyd Evans, and Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming).
T. Revell, G. Cahilly-Bretzin, I. Clarke, G. Manning, J. Jones, C. Mulley, R. Pascual, N. Bradley, D. Thomas, F. Leneghan, and W. Yeadon, ‘ChatGPT Versus Human Essayists: An Exploration of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence for Authorship and Academic Integrity in the Humanities, International Journal for Educational Integrity 20.18 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-024-00161-8.
‘Is Rage Ever Permissible? The Gender-Contingent Boundaries of Anger in the Íslendingasögur’, Oxford Research in English, Boundaries and Transgressions 10 (Spring 2020), 85-98. Special feature.
‘A Hitherto Unnoticed Copy of “Wit Hath Wonder”’, Notes and Queries 65.3 (September 2018), 301-302
