In 2013,Lees was director of the London Arts and Humanities Partnership,a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.[3]
Lees featured on the panel of experts for the 'Beowulf' episode of 'In Our Time',broadcast 5 March 2015.[4]
Lees was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2015.[1]
In January 2018,Lees was named director of the Institute of English Studies of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London.[1]
Expertise
Lees has published on a range of topics including Bede's account of Caedmon and the 'first hymn' in the English language;the Ruthwell Cross;and medieval masculinity.
More recently,Lees and her long-term collaborator and co-author Gillian Overing have explored contemporary medieval art works and poems by Caroline Bergvall,Roni Horn,and Sharon Morris.[5]
Publications
Author of Medieval Masculinities:Regarding Men in the Middle Ages (1994).[6]
Author of 'Tradition And Belief:Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England' (1999).[7]
Co-Editor with Gillian R. Overing,A Place to Believe in:Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006).[8]
Editor of The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013).[9][10]
With Gillian R. Overing,The Contemporary Medieval in Practice (UCL Press,2019).[5]
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