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Professor Marianne O'Doherty

 FEA
Professor

Research interests

  • Medieval travel and pilgrimage literature
  • Medieval maps, geographical writing, place and space, literary geographies
  • Book history and reception studies methodologies for medieval texts

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Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Marianne

Email: M.ODoherty@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4534

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I teach and research medieval literature and culture at the University of Southampton. My undergraduate teaching and MA supervision ranges across thematic modules on canons and canon formation, Old and Middle English Literature, Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, and medieval otherness and monstrosity.  My main research interest is in medieval experiences and representations of space, including maps, travel and pilgrimage writing, and geographical iterature. I am particularly interested in the reception of medieval travel and pilgrimage writing, including the Book of Sir John Mandeville. I am keen to hear from applicants interested in PhD study in any of these areas. I am an active member of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at Southampton. I am on the editorial board for the Brepols series Medieval Voyaging. 

You can hear me talking about India’s most Famous mythological emperor, Prester John, on In Our Time (4 June 2015). I've also blogged about about Where Were the Middle Ages for the Public Medievalist, and about digital approaches to exploring pilgrimage texts for the Pilgrims’ Libraries Network. Listen to me talk about Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale and medieval ideas of the sea in 'In a ship al steerless', a podcast for the John Hansard Gallery recorded as part of the Ancient Mariner Big Read project here. 

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