Helen started following the work of Graham Joyce, Nottingham Trent University, English, Culture, and Media Studies.
Helen started following the work of Stephen Pelle, University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies.
Helen had a poem "Witch-craft" accepted by Acta Victoriana--awesome!
Graduate Student, Centre for Medieval Studies
Chair of the Student Committee
Thesis Title: Literary Codicologies: The Form of the Book in Late Medieval England
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Alexandra Gillespie
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About
A third year Ph.D student at the Centre, I combine the traditional bibliographical fields of codicology and palaeography with literary analysis. One of my favourite papers, "Chaucer's Frankenstein Text", presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association, uses a formalist approach to map out how Chaucer negotiates medieval notions of unity and miscellaneity. Over the summer, I spent five weeks in Europe, presenting at conferences and exploring archives in Edinburgh, London, Oxford and Cambridge. My recent work on an edition of the Middle English life of St. Petronilla prompted an interest in the kinds of vernacular literature that had developed within England prior to Chaucer.
Pursuing this, my major field topic asks how the nature of specific sites of manuscript production in England produced texts and how those texts in turn shaped the nature of literary communities from 1200-1420.
Major Field Title:
Communities of Literary Production, 1200-1420
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