Kate started following the work of Jennifer Orr, University of Glasgow, Scottish Literature.
Kate started following the work of Katie Stevenson, University of St Andrews, History.
Kate started following the work of Alexandra da Costa, University of Oxford, English Language and Literature.
Department Member, English and American Studies
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
About
I submitted my PhD to the University of Manchester in 2009. My doctoral research focused primarily on the relationship between memory and national identity in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Scotland, considering how medieval theories of memory played a fundamental role in writings that sought to imagine Scottish nationhood.
Taking a cultural history approach, I examined literary representations of the Wars of Independence, arguing that this era of Scottish history became increasingly symbolic and was used as a political focus for a renewed sense of Scottish national feeling.
I am currently interested in the intersection between memory, the individual and the community in the literature of Scottish and English writers.
I previously studied for a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating in 2004. I received an MA (distinction) in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from the University of Manchester in 2005.
From 2007 to 2009 I was the Editorial Assistant for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, the journal of the New Chaucer Society.
Teaching is an important aspect of academia for me. I started teaching in 2006 and relish the challenges and opportunities it continues to offer. I currently teach Old and Middle English at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham.
