Dr Alice Jorgensen MA, PhD, (York)
Assistant Professor
Director of the MPhil in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture
Research and Teaching Interests:
Literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; Middle English literature; representations of violence; Vikings; women in medieval literature; historiography.
Recent Publications:
Books:
- Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History (edited volume) Brepols, 2010)
- Jane Roberts, Eric Stanley, Tom Shippey and Martin Carver, The Kemble Lectures on Anglo-Saxon Studies 2005-8, ed. by Alice Jorgensen, Helen Conrad-O’Briain and John Scattergood (Dublin: School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009) [for copies please contact Dr Helen Conrad-O’Briain, conrado@tcd.ie]
Articles and book chapters:
- ‘Rewriting the Æthelredian Chronicle : Narrative Style and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS F’, in Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History , ed. Alice Jorgensen (see above) (Brepols, 2010), pp. 113-38
- ‘Introduction: Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’, in Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History , ed. Alice Jorgensen (see above) (Brepols, 2010), pp. 1-28
- ‘The Trumpet and the Wolf: Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry’, Oral Tradition 24:2 (2010 for 2009), 319-336 http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/24ii/jorgensen
- ‘Power, Poetry and Violence: The Battle of Maldon’, in Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, ed. Brenda Bolton and Christine Meek, International Medieval Research 14 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007)
Book chapter (as Alice Cowen):
- ‘Byrstas and bysmeras : The Wounds of Sin in the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos’, in Wulfstan, Archbishop of York , ed. Matthew Townend, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 10 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).
Contact Details:
- Dr Alice Jorgensen,
School of English,
Trinity College,
University of Dublin,
Dublin 2,
Ireland - Tel: + 353 1 896 2475
- Fax: + 353 1 671 7114
- e-mail: jorgena@tcd.ie