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Dr Sheila Boll BA, MA, PhD, AHRB Fellow

Dr Sheila BollUniversity of Aberdeen

Email: s.m.boll@abdn.ac.uk

Sheila Boll received a B.A. (Hons) in English from the University of Chicago in 1994 and an M.A. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1997. She graduated in 2003 with a PhD from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, where her dissertation was titled 'Foster-Kin in Conflict: Fosterage as a Character Motivation in Medieval Irish Literature'. She arrived in Aberdeen in September 2002 to work on the AHRB project 'The Gaelic Manuscripts of Scotland: Texts, Transmission and Traffic', for which she is researching and writing a monograph on representations of North Britain in early medieval Gaelic literature. Her most recent publication is 'Seduction, Vengeance, and Frustration in Fingal Rónáin: The Role of Foster-Kin in Structuring the Narrative', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 47 (Summer 2004), 1-16.

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