Joanna Martin
Associate Professor in Middle English and Older Scots, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
I gained all my degrees at the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2002), and then held the Derby Tutorial Fellowship in Old and Middle English at Lincoln College, 2002-2007. In 2007 I was appointed a Lecturer in Middle English at the University of Nottingham, and became Associate Professor in 2016.
Expertise Summary
My research covers late Middle English and Older Scots Literature and Book History. I have particular interests in the poetry of Chaucer and Gower, in Older Scots poetry and prose, in lyric writing in the medieval and early modern period, and in editing medieval and early modern texts.
Teaching Summary
My teaching interests cover late Middle English and Older Scots literature. I convene and teach level 2 and 3 modules on Chaucer, his contemporaries, medieval dream visions, and late medieval lyrics.… read more
Research Summary
My research covers late Middle English and Older Scottish literature and book history. I am the author of a monograph, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1530 (Ashgate, 2008), and scholarly… read more
My teaching interests cover late Middle English and Older Scots literature. I convene and teach level 2 and 3 modules on Chaucer, his contemporaries, medieval dream visions, and late medieval lyrics. I teach modules on Middle English, book history, and textual criticism at MA level, and have a special interest in supervising PhD work on the poetry of John Gower, on lyrics, and on all aspects of medieval and early modern Scottish literature, book history and text editing.
Current Research
My research covers late Middle English and Older Scottish literature and book history. I am the author of a monograph, Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424-1530 (Ashgate, 2008), and scholarly edition, The Maitland Quarto: A New Edition of Cambridge, Pepys Library MS 1408 (Woodbridge, 2015). I am the co-editor of Pre-Modern Scotland, Literature and Governance, 1420-1587 (Oxford, 2017) with Emily Wingfield. I have just published a further scholarly edition, The Findern Manuscript: A New Edition of the Unique Poems (Liverpool, 2020). I am currently working on a book about the literary activities of the associates of the Maitland Family of Lethington in sixteenth-century Scotland.
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.