Centre for Medieval Studies
Dr Annabel Dukes
Annabel did her PhD in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York and during that time was a member of the Centre for Medieval Literature. Her thesis is about the development of the Middle English lyric in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Since completing her PhD, Annabel has held a WRoCAH engagement fellowship. This involved working with Taylor and Francis to think about how the value of humanities research is and should be talked about, and about using translational approaches to preserve and increase the public benefits derived from blue-sky humanities research. As part of that work she has spoken on these subjects to MPs during Evidence Week and with European Research Council members in Brussels. Annabel holds a PGCE from the Institute of Education at UCL.
As a PhD student, she co-ran the ‘Approaches to Medieval Religion’ Reading Group.
Thesis Title: The Early Development of the Middle English Lyric c. 1150–1300.
Research areas: Middle English, Latin and Old French lyrics, genre theory, vernacular theology, manuscript anthologies, and anchoretic literature.
Awards
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at York’s Humanities Research Centre
John Barrell Essay Prize, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
AHRC Competition Studentship with the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities
Derek Pearsall Dissertation Prize, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
York Masters Opportunity Scholarship
