Graduate Student, English and Related Literature
Durham University, Modern Languages and Cultures
Gustavus Adolphus College, Classics
Langwith College
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Professor Helen Fulton
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About
I was trained as an undergraduate as a classicist, and have since moved my focus forward a bit to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. I am currently a first-year PhD student working with the English and Related Literature department and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.
My main work is on narrative transformations from antiquity through to the Middle Ages.
My PhD thesis will focus on material possessions in Trojan War literature and how these objects identify characters. My primary sources will include the works of Virgil, Ovid, Dares, Dictys, Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Guido delle Colonne, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson. At the moment, I am working on my first chapter: The Aeneid and Ancient Sources. My research includes careful examination of the text and language as well as background reading on Virgil and Roman/Italian cultural identity.
As a PhD student at the University of York, I run Patchwork, which is a lecture series showcasing the research of postgraduate students at the Centre for Medieval Studies. I am also shadowing a module, "Love, Sin, and Deceit in Medieval Literature."
My MA dissertation focused on hospitality in Middle English literature primarily in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle. It was submitted September 2011 with the title, "Middle English Arthurian Romances and the Host-Guest Relationship" under the supervision of Professor Corinne Saunders. I was awarded my MA with distinction January 2012.
For further information, I occasionally use Twitter with the name mightyminerva, and I have a blog, which I try to keep updated fairly regularly: http://mightyminerva.wordpress.com.
