Eugenia Vorobeva

I am a medievalist specialising on medieval England and Scandinavia and working across the disciplinesof literature, theology, and history; having been awarded a doctorate in 2025, I am currently working as the librarian at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (M-CMRS).

Thesis Title: Apostolic Suffering in the Flesh and in the Narrative: Dismembering the ‘Body’ of Andreas saga postola I

My doctoral thesis was supervised by Professor Siân Grønlie and focused on literary style and structure of the medieval Old Norse life of St Andrew: I was particularly interested in how they were used by the translator-compiler to convey the ideas about the nature of Christian suffering, salvation, and grace to medieval Icelanders. 

I am particularly interested in the interplay of emotions, bodies, and theological notion of grace as depicted in medieval Icelandic religious writings as well as its relation to a wider continental intellectual culture of the time.

I have been teaching medieval English literature to visiting students at LMH since 2023 and, as a Graduate Development Scholar, I taught Old and Medieval English Language and Literature at St Anne's College. Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant for the ECR-funded CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry project.

Publications

Eugenia K. Vorobeva, ‘Humiliation and Situational Ethics: A Proverbial Motif in Some Sagas of Icelanders’, in New Studies on Emotions in Old Norse Literature, Acta Scandinavica, eds. Daniel Sävborg, Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, and Gareth Lloyd Evans (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026) [Forthcoming].

—, ‘Depicting Violence in Íslendingasögur: A Formula on the Verge of Legal Tradition’, in New Light on Formulas in Oral Poetry and Prose, USML 57, eds. Daniel Sävborg and Bernt Oyvind Thorvaldsen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 287–302.

—, ‘Violence “In the Flesh” and in the Narrative: On Poetics of the Islendingasögur’, Casus: The Individual and Unique in History, 15 (2020), 292–310.