Medieval

Related Faculty

Russell Black
Lecturer Part-Time
Timothy Bourns
Assistant Professor
Lauren Poyer
Associate Teaching Professor

Latest News

Tim Bourns at UC Berkeley: Animal Minds in the Medieval North (March 6, 2026)
In Memoriam: Patricia L.Conroy (1941 - 2012) (March 6, 2012)

Related Research

'Cats in Medieval Icelandic Life and Literature', in The Cat's Pyjamas: Cats in Culture and Society, eds. Charlotte Doesburg and Riitta Valijarvi (Freeland (Oxfordshire): Inter/Connexions) [forthcoming]
'Introducing Eco-Norse: Settlement, Environment, and Narrative in Medieval Iceland', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London) [forthcoming]
'Driftwood and the Divine: Ecocritical Readings of trémenn', in Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment, eds. Timothy Bourns and Carl Phelpstead (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London) [forthcoming]
'Blood, Rain, and Tears: Eco-Emotive Metaphor in the Medieval North', in Cultural Models for Emotions in the North Atlantic Vernaculars, 700–1400, eds. Edel Porter and Javier E. Díaz-Vera (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), 201–19
'Trees, Temporal Eternity, and the Norse Mythos', Medieval Ecocriticisms 5 (2025), 85–105
'A Way Forward? Discussing Colonial Entanglements and Medieval Studies: Postphase', with Cordelia Heß, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen, and Christian Koch Madsen, in Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Norse Colonies and Indigenous Peoples, eds. Cordelia Heß, Solveig Marie Wang, and Erik Wolf (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, December 2024), 289–306
‘Animal Emotionality and Selfhood in Old Norse Textual Culture', Emotions: History, Culture, Society 8.1 (June, 2024), 97–115
'Trees in the Saga Dreamscape', in Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture, eds. Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 65–85
Connors, Colin Gioia. 2022. "Translating Context with Digital Media in Medieval Icelandic Literature: Hrafnkels saga and The eSaga Project." In Culture Work: Folklore and the Humanities for a 21st Century Public, ed. Tim Frandy & Marcus Cederström, pp.302-11. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
‘Becoming-Animal in the Icelandic Sagas’, Neophilologus 105.4 (August, 2021), 633–53