Tom Revell

Thesis Title: Compositional Techniques in Old English Poetry

Supervisor: Professor Andy Orchard and Professor Francis Leneghan

My investigations into the composition of Old English poetry - primarily hagiographic verse - involve a combination of close reading, corpus analysis, source criticism, and comparison with analogous techniques in Anglo-Latin verse. In doing so, I identify, analyse, and suggest explanations or productive interpretations of intertextuality such as verbal paralleling, patterning, borrowing, and allusion in Old English poetry.

I am a Lecturer II at Magdalen College (https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/people/mr-tom-revell/) and Stipendiary Lecturer at St Anne's College (https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/cpt_people/revell-tom/), having previously been a College Lecturer at Keble College. I was a Research Assistant as part of the CLASP project (https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/). I have previously conducted Old English workshops in the English Faculty, taught Visiting Students, and chaired the Old English Graduate Reading Group. I also managed lectures and seminars for Oxford Medieval Studies in my role as Events Coordinator (https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/oxford-medieval-studies#/).

I am funded by the AHRC (Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP) and the John Henry Jones Scholarship: https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/tom-revell

Contact me!: https://twitter.com/TomRevell - tom.revell@balliol.ox.ac.uk