Dr Margaret Robson BA (London), MA (York), D.Phil (York)
Dr. Robson gained her first degree in English at The University of London, Goldsmiths’ College before moving on to The University of York for postgraduate work at the Centre for Medieval Studies. Her Master’s thesis investigated medieval theories of friendship with particular emphasis on how these ideologies served to isolate women. Her doctoral thesis was concerned with the Middle English Breton Lays.
Dr. Robson has taught at a number of universities in the UK and Ireland, commencing with a Postdoctoral teaching Fellowship at York and including terms at UCW, Aberystwyth, UCD and NUI Maynooth.
With teaching experience on many courses from Old English grammar to the rise of the novel, Dr. Robson’s principal interests are in Arthurian literature and Middle English romances although she has also given papers on Don De Lillo and lectures on Philip Larkin.
Publications:
‘How’s Your Father? Sex and the Adolescent Girl in Sir Degarré’, in The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain eds. A. Hopkins and C. Rushton (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2007).
‘Local Hero: Gawain and the Politics of Arthurianism’, Arthurian Literature XXIII, eds. Keith Busby and Roger Dalrymple (D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2006), pp.81-94.
‘From Beyond The Grave: Darkness at Noon in The Awntyrs of Arther’, The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance, eds. A. Putter and J. Gilbert, (Longman, Harlow, 2000).
‘Cloaking Desire: Re-reading Emaré’, Romance Reading on The Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative Presented to Maldwyn Mills, eds. J. Fellows, R. Field, G. Rogers and J. Weiss, (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1996).
‘Animal Magic: Moral Regeneration in Sir Gowther’, The Yearbook of English Studies (22, 1992), pp.140-153.
Contact:
Email: margaretrobson0@gmail.com