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Joanna Martin

Lecturer in Middle English, Faculty of Arts

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Expertise Summary

BA MSt DPhil (Oxford) Areas of expertise - late medieval English literature; Older Scots literature; book history.

Teaching Summary

My teaching interests cover late Middle English and Older Scots literature. I convene and teach level 3 modules on Chaucer and responses to his writing in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, and on… read more

Research Summary

My research covers late Middle English and Older Scottish literature and book history. I am currently working on the the literary activities of the Maitland Family of Lethington in sixteenth-century… read more

Selected Publications

  • MARTIN, J.M., 2008. Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540 Ashgate.
  • MARTIN, J. AND MCLUNE, K, 2009. 'The Maitland Folio and Quarto Manuscripts in Context' English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700: Tudor Manuscripts 1485-1603. 15, 237-623
  • MARTIN, J, 2012. 'The Maitland Quarto Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the Reign of James VI'. In: PARKINSON, D, ed., James VI and I, Literature and Scotland: Tides of Change, 1567-1625 Peeters, Leuven. 65-81 (In Press.)

My teaching interests cover late Middle English and Older Scots literature. I convene and teach level 3 modules on Chaucer and responses to his writing in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, and on the sixteenth-century Scottish lyric. I teach modules on Middle English and on the Makars at MA level, and have a special interest in supervising work on the poetry of John Gower, and on all aspects of medieval and early modern Scottish literature and book history.

Current Research

My research covers late Middle English and Older Scottish literature and book history. I am currently working on the the literary activities of the Maitland Family of Lethington in sixteenth-century Scotland, and am in the process of editing the Maitland Quarto Manuscript for the Scottish Text Society (forthcoming 2013). I currently hold an AHRC Early Career Fellowship. I am the author of Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1530 (Ashgate, 2008), and of several articles on the relationship between English and Scottish literature in the late Middle Ages. I am a contributor to The History of the Book in Scotland, ed. Sally Mapstone and A. Mann (forthcoming, Edinburgh, 2013) and to a CD-Rom of the Chepman and Myllar prints, Scotland's earliest printed books, produced by the Scottish Text Society and National Library of Scotland (2008).

Future Research

My future research will extend my expertise in Older Scots literature. Major publications planned include a co-edited anthology of sixteenth-century Scottish poetry and a monograph on literary culture in Lowland Scotland in the late sixteenth century.

  • MARTIN, J, 2013. 'Literary Anthologies'. In: MAPSTONE, S. and MANN, A, eds., The History of the Book in Scotland: Medieval to 1707 1. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J., 2013. 'Book Ownership, 1560-1603'. In: MAPSTONE, S. and MANN, A., eds., The History of the Book in Scotland: Medieval to 1707 1. Edinburgh University Press. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J, 2012. 'The Maitland Quarto Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the Reign of James VI'. In: PARKINSON, D, ed., James VI and I, Literature and Scotland: Tides of Change, 1567-1625 Peeters, Leuven. 65-81 (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J, 2012. “The Border, England and the English in Some Older Scots Lyric and Occasional Poems”. In: KATHERINE TERRELL AND MARK BRUCE, ed., The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600 Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J AND MCCLUNE, K, ed., 2012. Northern Book Cultures Textual Cultures. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J, 2012. John Lydgate: The Shorter Secular Poems. In: BOFFEY, J AND EDWARDS A.S.G, ed., A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry Boydell and Brewer. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J, 2012. The Presentation of the Family in Maitland Writings. In: HADLEY WILLIAMS, JANET AND MCCLURE, DERRICK, ed., Fresche Fontanis: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland Cambridge Scholars Press. (In Press.)
  • MARTIN, J. AND MCLUNE, K, 2009. 'The Maitland Folio and Quarto Manuscripts in Context' English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700: Tudor Manuscripts 1485-1603. 15, 237-623
  • MARTIN, J.M., 2008. Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1540 Ashgate.
  • 2008. The Chepman and Myllar Prints: Scotland's First Printed texts: Digitised facsimiles with introduction, headnotes and transcriptions National Library of Scotland. Dr Sally Mapstone. Scottish Text Society. 10/01/2008 00:00:00
  • MARTIN, J, 2007. Translations of Fortune: James I's <i>Kingis Quair</i> and the rereading of Lancastrian poetry. In: ROYAN, N, ed., Langage Cleir Illumynate: Scottish Poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630 Amsterdam: Rodopi. 43-60
  • MARTIN, J, 2007. 'Thair is richt litill play at my hungrie hart': politics and play in David Lyndsay's <i>Ane Satyre of the Thre Estaitis</i> <i>in </i><b>Literature Compass</b> Blackwell Synergy. Available at: <http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00498.x>
  • MARTIN, J, 2006. 'Of Wisdome and of Guide Governance': Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour. In: BAWCUTT, P. and WILLIAMS, J.H., eds., A Companion to medieval Scottish poetry Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer. 75-88
  • MARTIN, J., 2003. `Had the Hous, for it is myne': Royal and self-reform in older Scots literature from King Hart (c. 1500) to Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (c. 1552). In: BEATTIE, C, MASLAKOVIC, A. and REES JONES, S., eds., The medieval household in Christian Europe, c. 850-c. 1550: managing power, wealth, and the body (International Medieval Research, 12) Turnhout: Brepols. 137-154

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