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Dr Erin Goeres
Room no. 210, Department of Scandinavian Studies
16-18 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0AT
Tel: 020 7679 3185
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Appointment
  • Associate Professor
  • SELCS
  • Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Biography

I received my doctorate from the University of Oxford English Faculty in 2010. I also hold an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of York and a BA(Hons) in English Literature and French Studies from the University of Winnipeg, Canada. After completing my doctorate I lectured in medieval languages and literature for two years at the University of Oxford before taking up a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. I joined UCL in September 2013.

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Research Summary

I am currently writing a book about the representation of 1066 in the literatures of England, Normandy, and Scandinavia. My study brings together historiography from all three regions, as well as saints' lives, romance, and myth. I am particularly interested in how trauma, memory, and negative emotions are portrayed in literature, and how medieval authors adapt the same story for different audiences.

My doctoral thesis examined the social functionsof commemorative skaldic verse during the Viking age and has since been published as Poetics of Commemoration: Skaldic Verse and Social Memory, c. 890-1070 (Oxford University Press, 2015). In this book I trace the evolution of commemorative poetry from its rootsin the disparate kingdoms of pre-Christian Scandinavia through to its emergenceas a highly crafted, Christian art form in the eleventh century. I argue that that poeticcommemoration played a key role in the construction of a shared history andidentity for members of the elite, courtly communities of early medievalScandinavia.

Teaching Summary

I teach a number of modules on Old Norse language and literature for undergraduate and postgraduate students. I also contribute to modules on Scandinavian literature and history, medieval English and French literature, and poetry from the medieval to the modern period.

Appointments
01-AUG-2018 Associate Professor Scandinavian Studies (SELCS) UCL, United Kingdom
01-SEP-2016 Head of Department Department of Scandinavian Studies University College London, United Kingdom
01-SEP-2013 Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature Department of Scandinavian Studies University College London, United Kingdom
01-SEP-2012 – 31-AUG-2013 Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto, Canada
01-JAN-2012 – 31-DEC-2012 Stipendiary Lecturer in Medieval Literature St Anne's College University of Oxford, United Kingdom
01-JAN-2011 – 31-DEC-2011 Stipendiary Lecturer in Medieval Literature Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford, United Kingdom
01-OCT-2010 – 30-JUN-2012 Retained Lecturer in Old English Magdalen College University of Oxford, United Kingdom
01-OCT-2010 – 31-DEC-2010 Retained Lecturer in Medieval Literature Wadham College University of Oxford, United Kingdom
01-OCT-2010 – 31-DEC-2010 Retained Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature Faculty of English Language and Literature University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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