Centre for Medieval Studies
Dr Harriet Evans Tang
Harriet completed her interdisciplinary PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies in September 2017, and passed her viva with no corrections that December. She currently works as the Administrative Assistant in the Centre, and previously worked as a Graduate Assistant on the AHRC-funded Archaeology of the Norman Conquest project in the Department of Archaeology (P.I. Dr Aleks McClain, York), and as a Graduate Assistant for Prof. Matthew Townend.
As a PhD student, she co-ran the Old Norse Reading Group.
Thesis title: Animal-Human Relations on the Household-Farm in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland.
Research areas: Medieval studies, Old Norse, animal-human relations, translation, archaeological theory, spatial analysis, archaeoacoustics
Publications
2017. Schwein – E.1 – IV.1 Narrative Texte. In Obermaier, Sabine, (Ed.). Tiere in der Literatur des Mittelalters Ein interdisziplinäres Lexikon. Online.
2014. The Horse and his Hero in Old Norse Literature: A symbiotic relationship in the heroic poetry of the Poetic Edda. In Agnes Broome, Pei-Sze Chow, and Nichola Smalley, (Eds). Illuminating the North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013. London: Norvik Press, pp.45-60.
Awards
Harriet's PhD research was funded by the Wolfson Foundation.
In June 2018, Harriet was awarded a Humanities Research Centre Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of York.
In June 2019, Harriet was co-awarded the Mark Ormrod PhD Prize for an outstanding PhD on a medieval topic, along with Eric Wolever. The Mark Ormrod PhD prize will be awarded annually to the best PhD in the field of Medieval Studies at the University of York.
