Staff

There are more than 30 full-time staff actively involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision at the CMS, and also many emeritus staff, research staff and associates. The current Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies is Professor Linne Mooney.

A-G

 

Teaching Staff, surnames A-G

Steve Ashby (Archaeology)
Archaeology of portable materials; use of animal products in craft and industry

Tim Ayers (History of Art)
English medieval art and stained glass

Henry Bainton (English)
Latin and French literature of the High Middle Ages

Peter Biller (History)
Heresy; medicine; medieval thought on population.

Victoria Blud (English) Teaching Fellow
Concepts of space and place, transitional texts and the unspeakable in medieval literature and culture

Venetia Bridges (English) Postdoctoral Research Fellow
English, French and Latin literature of the Middles Ages, especially the twelfth to fourteenth centuries

Sarah Brown (History of Art) 
Stained Glass; ecclesiastical architecture

Michele Campopiano (English)
Medieval Latin texts, medieval historiography and geography, cultures and literatures of medieval Italy, Franciscan cultural traditions and relationships between Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages.

Kenneth Clarke (English)
Late medieval Italian literature, in book production and circulation, the commentary tradition, glosses and marginalia and all aspects of the work of Dante.

Laura Crombie (History)
History of the Low Countries in the later middle ages with a focus on urban groups.

Catherine Cubitt (History)
Anglo-Saxon history; early medieval religious and cultural history.

Jonathan Finch (Archaeology)
Church monuments and commemorative art; landscapes.

Helen Fulton (English)
Medieval Literature in historical and political contexts; Arthurian literature; Medieval Celtic languages and literatures.

Mary Garrison (History)
Early medieval literary and cultural history

Kate Giles (Archaeology)
Medieval and post-medieval buildings

Jeremy Goldberg (History)
Later medieval English social and cultural history; women's and gender history

Jane Grenville (Archaeology)
Medieval standing buildings

H-O

 

Teaching staff, surnames H-O

Guy Halsall (History)
The history and archaeology of Merovingian Gaul and an interest in the relationship between violence and society

Jane Hawkes (History of Art)
Late antique and early medieval art and icongraphy

Amanda Lillie (History of Art)
Italian Renaissance art & architecture; patronage

Emanuele Lugli (History of Art)
Mediterranean art, architecture and visual culture from 1000-1500, with an emphasis on the nexus between art, politics, science and technology

Aleks McClain (Archaeology)
Archaeology of churches, commemoration, and the Anglo-Norman period

Nicola McDonald (English)
Romance and medieval French literature; Chaucer and Gower; gender studies

Linne Mooney (English)
Medieval English Palaeography

Michelle Mundee (Archaeology) 
The application of biomoelcular techniques to aid in understanding the resource base of communities and to investigate the  interaction between humans and animals in past societies, with a focus  on the medieval period

Christopher Norton (History of Art)
Medieval ecclesiastical art and architecture

Jeanne Nuechterlein (History of Art)
Late medieval and Reformation art of northern Europe

Terry O'Connor (Archaeology)
The relations between past peoples and the animals around them.

Mark Ormrod (History)
Late medieval English government and politics

P-Z

 

 

Teaching staff, surnames P-Z

Sarah Rees Jones (History)
Medieval social history, both urban and rural; medieval social ideals (eg utopias); Medieval towns (especially York), including archaeological, cultural and political aspects.

Julian Richards (Archaeology)
Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England

Lucy Sackville (History)
Medieval heresy and its repression, concentrating on the histories of Italy and southern France.

Craig Taylor (History)
Late medieval French political culture; 100 Years War; Joan of Arc; chivalry

Matthew Townend (English)
Viking language and literature

Elizabeth Tyler (English)
Old English poetics (style and diction); orality and literacy; narrative

Michele Vescovi (History of Art)
Art and architecture of the eleventh to thirteenth century, with a special focus on the geography of art

Hanna Vorholt (History of Art)
Illuminated manuscripts, and the representation of Jerusalem in the medieval West.

Kathleen Walker-Meikle (History) Wellcome Research Fellow
Animal-human relationships in the High and Late Middle Ages

Sethina Watson (History)
Social, religious and urban history of England 1050-1350; legal form and social role of hospitals

George Younge (English) Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 

 

Emeriti

  • Martin Carver (Archaeology)
    Archaeological practice and protohistoric Europe
  • Claire Cross (History)
    Religion in late medieval and early modern England
  • Barrie Dobson (History)
    Later medieval English ecclesiastical and cultural history
  • Allan Hall (Archaeology)
    Environmental archaeology, particularly plant macrofossil assemblages
  • Richard Marks (Art History)
    Medieval stained glass; the figurative arts in medieval England
  • Derek Pearsall (English)
    Late medieval English literature, especially Chaucer and Langland
  • Felicity Riddy (English)
    Middle Scots Literature; English urban literary culture

Admin Staff

CMS Administrative Staff

Administrator:  Gillian Galloway (gillian.galloway@york.ac.uk)

Administrative Assistant:  Brittany Scowcroft (brittany.scowcroft@york.ac.uk)

The CMS Office is open from 09.30-4:00 pm Monday to Friday. 
Tel: 01904 (43)3910
Fax: 01904 (43)3918
E:  cms-office@york.ac.uk