Dr Colleen Curran B.A. (College of the Holy Cross), M.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (KCL) Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (Searobend)
Research and Teaching Interests
I am Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the IRC-funded Searobend project in the School of English. I was previously employed as the main Anglo-Latin and manuscripts Postdoctoral Research Fellow on 'A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry', an ERC-funded project based in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. I was also a Junior Research Fellow (2017-2020) and a Research Fellow (2020-2022) at Corpus Christi College, and I also served as the Senior Pro-Proctor of the University (2020-2021). I completed my Ph.D. the adoption of Caroline minuscule, the eighth-century supranational script developed in the Carolingian empire, within tenth-century southern Britain at King's College London, where my research was funded by a scholarship in Medieval Palaeography. I am currently revising elements of my thesis into a monograph. In addition to my role on Searobend, I am presently working on several articles that explore the relationship between Old English (and other Insular language traditions, such as Old Cornish and Old Breton) and Latin, and how these languages are physically presented within the coeval surviving manuscripts.
I have taught on both graduate and undergraduate courses at the Warburg Institute, King's College London, the University of Oxford, and University College London.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Peer-Reviewed Monographs
- The Divergence of Script in Britain (in preparation)
Peer-Reviewed Edited Books
- with Tristan Major, ed., Frithegod’s Latin Poetry (forthcoming)
- with David Rundle, ed., The Legacy of Oxford Palaeographers (forthcoming)
- The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition: Sources, Transmission, and Reception, c. 650–1100, Arc Humanities Press (forthcoming 2024)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- ‘A Palaeographic Reconsideration of the ‘Hand D’ Corpus’, Revue Bénédictine 132 (2022), 44–100
- ‘The Textual Transmission of Aldhelm’s Carmen de Virginitate’ (forthcoming 2023)
- ‘The Landévennec Group: A Preliminary Overview of Breton Caroline Minuscule’ (in preparation)
- ‘The Writing of the Bodmin/Padstow Manumissions’ (in preparation)
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
- ‘Books and Writing’, in The New Cambridge History of Britain, vol. 1: Early Medieval Britain, c. 410–1100, ed. by Rory Naismith and Fiona Edmunds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026).
- ‘Paläographie’, in Werkzeuge des Historikers. Eine Einführung in die Historischen Hilfswissenschaften, Band 2: Mittelalter, hrsg. von Thomas Wozniak (Stuttgart/Berlin/Köln: Verlag Kohlhammer, forthcoming 2024).
- ‘Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’, in Brill Handbook of Medieval Latin Liturgy, ed. by Andrew Irving and Daniel DiCenso (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2024).
- ‘Standardization Through Hybridization: The Morphology of Nascent English Caroline’, in ‘Change’ in Medieval and Renaissance Scripts and Manuscripts: Proceedings of the 19th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine (Berlin, 16–18 September, 2015), ed. by Eef Overgaauw and Martin Schubert (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), pp. 263–72.
Digital Resouces
- A Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Latin Poetry (University of Oxford, 2022): https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/db-latest/handlists/
Academic Reviews
- Review of Bede's Latin Poetry, by Michael Lapidge, Early Medieval Europe, 30.1 (2022), 138–140.
- Review of How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems, by Daniel Donoghue, The English Historical Review, 134 (2019), 1511–1512.
Contact
Dr Colleen Curran
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2