Wendy Scase

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Wendy Scase is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. [1] Her research interests include medieval manuscript production and use; histories of literacy; and relations between medieval literature and law, politics, and religion. [1]

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Education & Career

Scase is a specialist in medieval English language and literature.

Scase began her academic career as an undergraduate in English and American Literature at the University of Kent. She then moved to Oxford where she took an MPhil in English Medieval Studies 1100–1500, followed by a DPhil. [1] From 1987 to 1990 she held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (PDF) at the University of Oxford to study Medieval religious and polemical literature. [2]

Following completion of her PDF she took up a post lecturing in English at the University of Hull, where she founded the Hull Centre for Medieval Studies in 2008. [1] [3] In 1999 she took up the Geoffrey Shepherd chair in Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham. [1]

She was director of the Vernon Manuscript Project [4] (in collaboration with the Bodleian Library, Oxford), and the Electronic Catalogue of Vernacular Manuscript Books of the Medieval West Midlands project. She was also a partner in the Manuscripts Online project. [1]

Scase is founding co-editor of New Medieval Literatures , with Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania) and David Lawton (Washington University in St. Louis). [5] She was previously a general editor for the Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe book series published by Brepols. She served as a member of the editorial board of the journal Speculum. [6]

Scase held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 2016–2019 for the project “Crafting English Letters: A Theory of Medieval Scribal Practice”. [7]

Scase is an affiliate of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. [8] She is a key collaborator in the Early Modern Graphic Literacies Project, University of Turku. [9]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Staff profile: Wendy Scase" . Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ↑ British Academy. "Directory of Research Interests of Current and Former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows" . Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies". University of Hull. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "A facsimile edition of the Vernon manuscript [electronic resource]: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Poet. A. 1". Oxford University. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "New Medieval Literatures". Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Speculum: Editorial Board". Cambridge Journals Online. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships 2015" . Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "Angus McIntosh Centre Affiliates" . Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "Early Modern Graphic Literacies Research Team" . Retrieved 13 September 2024.
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