Christiania WHITEHEAD
Prof. Christiania WHITEHEAD
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Christiania Whitehead taught Middle English Literature for twenty years at the University of Warwick, UK, before moving to Switzerland, where she recently participated in an SNSF-funded research project titled Region and Nation: Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England at the University of Lausanne (2016-20). She specialises in medieval religious writing, in particular, devotional and mystical writing for and by women, hagiography, lyric poetry, and allegory.
Publications
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Co-ed. with Julia Boffey, Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Boydell & Brewer, 2018)
Co-ed. with Margaret Coombe and Anne Mouron, Saints of North-East England, 600-1500 (Brepols, 2017)
Another co-edited volume is forthcoming next year:
Co-ed. with Hazel Blair and Denis Renevey, Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions (Brepols, 2022)