James Titterington

James Titterington
DPhil Candidate
St Hugh's College

Thesis Title: The Hand of Lupus: A Survey and Analysis of Wulfstan’s Autographs

Supervisor: Professor Francis Leneghan

Research Interests: Old English Prose, The Relationship between Literature and Documentary Material, Literature and Early Medieval Material Culture.

 

I studied for my undergraduate degree in English at King's College London, where I undertook a King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF). This was followed by an MSt in English (650-1550) at the University of Oxford. I was subsequently awarded a research grant by the University of Turku in Finland and worked on a large-scale project exploring graphic literacy. My DPhil research is generously funded by the News UK Studentship and Richmond Graduate Scholarship (St Hugh's College).

 

Selected Papers:

  • ‘What Does it Take to be Great? The Usefulness of Alexander the Great during the Reigns of Alfred, Edward and Æthelstan’, University of Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Festival, June 2023.

  • ‘The Craft’s Mystery: Assessing the Potential Insular Manuscript Context of a Motif-piece Found at Lindisfarne’, Turku University English Department Seminar, September 2022. (Invited lecture).

  • ‘Putting the Pig in its Proper Place: A Contextual Approach to Understanding the Inclusion of the “Beigaðr Episode” in Vatnsdæla saga’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 2022.

  • ‘Talking with Water and Earth in the Colophons of Cynewulf’, University of Oxford English Graduate Conference, June 2022.