Dr Anke Bernau - further information

Supervision areas:

I would be happy to supervise research in any of the areas related to my research interests. The John Rylands library, with its large collection of medieval manuscripts and early printed books, its electronic resources (such as Early English Books Online, Literature Online and electronic image collections such as ARTSTOR and LUNA) and its comprehensive range of critical materials provides an ideal research environment for students interested in medieval literature, culture and medievalism.

Recent and Current PhD Students and their Theses:

• Hannah Priest: 'Monstrous Subjectivity in Middle English and Anglo-Norman Verse' [successfully completed in 2009]
• Kate Ash: ' "Off quhat nacioun art thow?": The Enigma of National Identity in the Middle Ages' [successfully completed in 2010]
• Daisy Black, 'Action in the Margins: Comic Representations of Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Religious Drama'
• Kathy Frances, 'Incarceration and Identity; Prison Writings in Late Medieval England, c. 1350-1550'
• Stephen Gordon, 'The Theatre of Death: Ghosts, Perception and the Funerary Performance'

Current teaching:

Taught courses:

I teach and direct courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Undergraduate courses include our core first year course, entitled "Mapping the Medieval"; a second-year course entitled "Sex and Salvation in Medieval Literature"; and my specialist year 3 course, "Marvels, Monsters and Strangers: Encounters with the Other in Medieval Texts".

At MA level, my curren course is entitled: "Magic and Popular Religion, c. 1200-c.1500", but I have also run courses on Early English Drama (together with Professor Jacqueline Pearson) and on Medievalism (with Dr David Matthews).

Additional responsibilities:

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Series

I am a general editor of the Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Series. For further information on the series, including an outline of the Series? aims and the process of submitting a book proposal, please go to:
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/aseries.asp?id=61