Jane Bonsall

Thesis title: Medieval Morality and the Supernatural Lady of Middle English Romance

Biography

Background

Jane is currently a third-year PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. David Salter. Her work explores the moral and narrative complexities in representations of supernatural women in medieval English romances, and the interaction of popular texts with the changing English society of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Qualifications

  • MSc Medieval Literatures and Cultures (Distinction), University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK)
  • BA English Literature (Honours), with a minor in History, Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Co-organizer of the University of Edinburgh's Medieval Reading group

Undergraduate teaching

Current Tutor for English Literature 1, semester 2. 

2016

  •  "Power, Acceptability and Gender Subversion in the Middle English Fairy-Mistress Romances." The Gender-Free Being. Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies. The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University. 12-15 May 2016.
  • "Exotic Femininity: Difference and Permission in the Saracen Princesses of Middle English Romance" Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages. Saint Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies. 26-28 April 2016.

2015

  • “Like Mother, Like Daughter: Isolde and Her Mother in the Middle English Tristan-Tradition.” Parenthood and Childhood in the Middle Ages. University of Edinburgh. 8-9 October 2015.

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