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George Younge

Biography

George Younge studied English at King’s College London, and subsequently completed a PhD in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College Cambridge in 2012. In the same year, he took up a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for Medieval Literature (CML), an international research group based jointly at the Universities of York and Southern Denmark (Odense). In 2015, he was appointed as Lecturer in Medieval Literature at York.

George’s research focuses on British literary culture in the Early and High Middle Ages (c.600–1300). He is the author of articles on Anglo-Saxon religious poetry and prose, the Old English sources of the Gothic windows at Canterbury Cathedral, and anti-Jewish texts of the twelfth century. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Old English in the Age of Anselm and Becket,which examines the use of Old English literature in southeastern England after the Norman Conquest.

Contact details

Dr George Younge
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 323913