Prof. Dr. Miriam Edlich-Muth: Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2007- 2012 | PhD, University of Cambridge, Thesis: ‘Malory and His European Contemporaries: Adapting Late Medieval Arthurian Collections’; Supervisor: Prof. Helen Cooper |
2006 | MPhil, Medieval Literature, University of Cambridge |
2005 | BA (Hons), English Language and Literature, University of Oxford |
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSTS
| Since 2021 | W3 Professor of Old and Middle English Language and Literature |
Since 2017 | W-1 Chair in Medieval English, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
2016-2017 | Hera Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Old and Middle English Literature, Free University Berlin, (PI) Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston
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2015-2016 | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Old and Middle English Literature, Free University Berlin |
2014-2015 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Excellenzinitiative, University of Bremen |
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Intersectional Identities in Old Yiddish Romance: Bovo d'Antona and Pariz un Vyene, DFG-funded project, Jan. 2021 – Jan. 2024, Co-Principal Investigator with Prof. Marion Aptroot
- From Insular to European Romance: The Medieval Bevis-Tradition in Multi-Text Manuscript Contexts, DFG-Funded Project, July 2020 – July 2023, Principal Investigator, detailed page
- ERC-Consolidator Project Post-REALM: Post-National Reconceptions of European Literary History: A Mixed Method Approach, 2023-2028, Principal Investigator
Hosting:
- Translating Feeling and Identity in Partonopeus de Blois
- SNF-Funded Project, April 2020 – September 2021, Host to Postdoc Dr. Lucie Kaempfer (PI), detailed page
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph and Editions
Malory and His European Contemporaries: Adapting Late Arthurian Collections (Arthurian Studies 81). Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014.
(2018a) (ed.). Mobile Continuities: Pan-European Romances in Medieval Compilation Manuscripts/ Der Kurzroman in den spätmittelalterlichen Sammelhandschriften Europas (Imagines Medii Aevi 40). Wiesbaden: Reichert.
(2018b) (ed.). Medieval Romances Across European Borders (Medieval Narratives in Transmission 1). Turnhout: Brepols.
Coldham-Fussel, Victoria, Edlich-Muth, Miriam, and Renée Ward (eds.). The Arthurian World. Routledge: London and New York, 2022. [Handbook with 34 chapters]
Essays and Articles
Edlich-Muth, Christian, and Miriam Edlich-Muth. "Unravelling Plot: A Mixed-Method Workflow for the Comparative Plot Feature Analysis of Multilingual Text Collection." Zeitschrift für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften, forthcoming.
Edlich-Muth, Miriam, Tether, Leah, Alamichel, Marie-Françoise, and Fanny Moghadassi. "Anglais: Floris and Blancheflour: milieu de XIIIe siècle: Notice et traduction." In Floire et Blanchefleu en Europe: anthologie, ed. by Sofia Lodén and Vanessa Obry (Le Moyen Age européen), Grenoble: Presses de l'Université de Grenoble-Alpes, 2022: 183-207.
"Adapting for Genre in the Middle English Chevalere Assigne", Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 46-63.
Edlich-Muth, Miriam, and Mary Bateman. "Disrupted Plans: Negotiating Bevis of Hampton in the Shifting Framework of BL MS Egerton 2862." Philological Quarterly 101.3 (2022): 163-188.
Edlich-Muth, Miriam and Christian Edlich-Muth. “The Reader at Large: Computational Approaches to the Fifteenth-Century Compilation Manuscript BL Cotton Caligula A.ii (Part One)”, Anglia 139.1 (2021): 154-180.
“The Artifice of Being a Medieval Knight in Elye Bokher’s Bovo d’Antona”, in Yiddish Knights, ed. by Marion Aptroot, Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 13, 2020.
“Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries and Twentieth-Century Mass Graves”. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Agency: The Uses of Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces through Time, ed. by Estelle Weiss-Krejci, Sebastian Becker and Philip Schwyzer. Springer, 2022.
Edlich-Muth, Miriam and Christian Edlich-Muth. “A Computational Approach to Source Adaptation in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur”. The Digital Medievalist 12:1 (2019).
“A Saint’s Romance - Rosa, Rosana and the Hispano-Norwegian Links Shaping ‘Florez ok Blankiflur”. Medieval Romances Across European Borders, ed. by Miriam Edlich-Muth, (Medieval Narratives in Transmission 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2018: 57-75.
“Contextualising Continuation: An Approach to Medieval Romance Collections”. Mobile Continuities: Pan-European Romances in Medieval Compilation Manuscripts/ Der Kurzroman in den spätmittelalterlichen Sammelhandschriften Europas, ed. by Miriam Edlich-Muth (Imagines Medii Aevi 40). Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2018: 103–27.
“From Magic to Miracle: Reframing Chevalere Assigne”. Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance, ed. by Archibald, Elizabeth, Megan Leitch and Corinne Saunders (Studies in Medieval Romance 22). Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2018: 173-88.
“Prosopopoeia: Sharpening the Anglo-Saxon Toolkit”. English Studies 95: 2 (2014): 95-108.
“Delete as Appropriate: Writing Between the Lines of the Old English Wife’s Lament”. Women and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication Across Media, ed. by Burcon, S. and M. Ames. Jefferson: NC: McFarland Press, 2011: 61-74.