Research

I am based at Somerville College as the Mary Somerville Junior Research Fellow in German, where I am undertaking a project on 'Play and Piety in Pre-Modern Women's Religious Writing',  a comparative project which will look at the interplay between the devotional and the ludic in French, German, and Dutch material. This grew partly out of a thematic strand of my doctoral research, 'Late Medieval Marian Lyric in Urban Spaces' which explored poetry about the Virgin Mary in competitive contexts,  through which I developed an interest in how the playful manifests itself in devotional writing and even enriches the articulation of piety. 

I was previously Stipendiary Lecturer in German at St Hugh's and St Anne's Colleges, where I was personal and organising tutor for the German students and taught translation and literature, and held a similar role at Somerville beforehand while I completed my doctorate. I have given lectures on Heinrich von Morungen's Minnesang, Easter Plays, and Play in Medieval German Literature. 

As the Schools Liaison Representative for the German sub-faculty, I enjoy doing outreach work and have offered several taster sessions students interested in languages and medieval studies.

Teaching

German

Translation from and into German for Prelims and FHS 

German Prelims Paper III (poetry and drama) & IV (prose)

Introduction to Medieval Studies Paper XII

German FHS Paper IX - medieval set texts 

German FHS Paper VI - medieval period paper

German FHS Paper VIII - early part of the modern period paper

German Special Subject: Gottfried von Strasbourg's Tristan and Courtly Culture

French

Medieval French lyric in translation - tutorials and classes on troubadour, trouvère and late lyric for students from the English Faculty

French Paper IX - medieval set texts 

Late Lyric for French FHS Paper VI

Unseen Translation French FHS Paper IIa 

Chastelaine de Vergy French Prelims Paper IV