Emily V. Thornbury, Assistant Professor

Office: 474 Wheeler

Areas of Interest

Anglo-Saxon literature: Old English and Anglo-Latin. Poetics; textual criticism; palaeography; modern reception of medieval literature.

Current Research

A monograph called 'Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England', about the sort of people who composed verse in pre-Conquest England, and the methods and circumstances in which they learned to do so.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

‘Ælfric’s Zoology’, Neophilologus 92 (2008), 141-53.

‘Aldhelm’s Rejection of the Muses and the Mechanics of Poetic Inspiration in Early Anglo-Saxon England’, Anglo-Saxon England 36 (2007), 71-92.

‘“Ða Gregorius gamenode mid his wordum”: Old English Versions of Gregory’s Bilingual Puns’, Leeds Studies in English 38 (2007), 17-30.

‘Admiring the Ruined Text: the Picturesque in Editions of Old English Verse’, New Medieval Literatures 8 (2006), 215-44.

‘Christ and Satan: “Healing” Line 7’, English Studies 87 (2006), 505-10.

Office Hours

Thursday 11am-1pm.