A Critical Study of Hugh Miller's Old Red Sandstone, 1838-1920
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Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland & Iceland
My research currently falls into four linked areas: mediaeval Celtic literature, mediaeval Icelandic and Scandinavian literature, modern history of science, and literary history c. 1750-1920. My specific interests within these fields are:
I am currently completing my seventh and eighth books: a monograph on perceptions of historicity and fictionality in the writing and rewriting of Icelandic sagas, 1200-1900 (funded by a two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship), and a new edition of Hugh Miller's much-loved masterpiece of Victorian science and landscape writing, The Old Red Sandstone (co-edited with Dr. Michael A. Taylor). I am also engaged in ongoing studies of secular inauguration-rituals in mediaeval and early modern Ireland and Gaelic Scotland, the symbolic linkages between dragons and dinosaurs in modern science and its communication, and a comparison of Irish and Icelandic versions of the Phaidra-Hippolytos story-pattern. The comparative study of frenzied warriors and shapeshifters in mediaeval Irish and Icelandic sagas which I produced during my year as Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo (2012-13) has recently been published in Kings and Warriors in Early North-West Europe, ed. Jan Erik Rekdal and Charles Doherty (Dublin: Four Courts, 2016).
2009-10: my research was supported by the AHRC-funded Research Leave Scheme. This award was made via the Modern Languages panel in order to enable me to finish my book The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
2012-13: teaching cover grant and stipend from the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo (at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters) where I was resident Research Fellow for the year.
2015-17: Leverhulme Research Fellowship (teaching cover and research travel award)
I am currently supervising the following PhD projects:
I have supervised the following completed PhD projects:
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'Vera Lex Historiae'?: Constructions of Truth in Medieval Historical Narrative. Taranu, C. (ed.). Gracchi Books
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The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature. Denisoff, D., Schaffer, T. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 401-413, 13 pages
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The Legendary Legacy. Driscoll, M., Lavender, P., Hufnagel, S., Stegmann, B. (eds.). University Press of Southern Denmark
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Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 37-45
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The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. Holmes, J., Ruston, S. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 155-171, 17 pages
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The Routledge Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Saga. Jakobsson, A., Jakobsson, S. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 88-110, 24 pages
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Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe. Rekdal, J. E., Doherty, C. (eds.). Four Courts Press, pp. 180-236, 57 pages
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