University of Glasgow

Doctoral Researcher, English Language

School of Critical Studies, College of Arts

Thesis Title: 'Judgement Day I' and 'Resignation A' and 'B': A Conceptual Unit in the Exeter Book with a Critical Edition

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Johanna is currently a doctoral candidate in English Language at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis focuses on three poems found consecutively in the Exeter Book: 'Judgement Day I', 'Resignation A' and 'Resignation B'; using thematic, palaeographical and codicological evidence, it argues that the manuscript compiler, or scribe, placed these texts together to be read for a specific devotional purpose.

Johanna is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant in English Language (Levels One and Two) and has previously guest lectured on Old and Middle English Literature, Manuscript Culture and Electronic Editions and Editing. Until it was published in 2009, she worked as a Section Editor ('Physical Sensibility', 'Social Class and Nobility', 'Badge of Rank') and Thesaurus Assistant on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. From May 2009 to August 2011 she held the post of Research Assistant (formerly Project Assistant) on the JISC-funded Enroller Project at the University of Glasgow. She is currently working as a transcriber for the 'Indexing the Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220' Project, funded by the College of Arts, University of Leicester.

During her doctoral studies she also served as General Editor of Glasgow's postgraduate journal 'eSharp' (2008-9), co-founded the Association of Postgraduate Journals (2008) and has co-developed and delivered postgraduate skills training events at the University of Glasgow and a number of other UK HEIs since 2007.

Johanna is also a reviewer for Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies and co-organiser of the Quadrivium Medieval Textual Studies training event held at the University of Glasgow in February, 2012.
See http://quadriviumproject.com/ for further details.

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