@meganleitch
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at University of Groningen, past President of IAS-BB & co-editor of Arthurian Lit. Research: treason, sleep, dwarves, & the Medieval Middlebrow. Canadian expat, Welsh exile, aspiring European. She/her.
Come be my colleague! Groningen is hiring in contemporary English literature and creative writing. The post has an 18-month probation period with an eye to a permanent position:
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Thanks Pauline!
Had a lovely time at my inaugural lecture and party on Friday, silly hats and centuries-old rituals and all. Individual thank-yous to follow, but I'm grateful for all the cards, well-wishes, flowers and other gifts, and especially for the friends and colleagues near and far who offered them!
A reminder that applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
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Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Given that he disdains all things medieval, I presume he'll be declining this medieval title
Happy New Year to everyone except the guy who just got given a knighthood for having axed Medieval English at Leicester...!
Out of office auto-reply is on and the tree is up. Here's to the holidays!
Spotted in front of Groningen's Academy Building: a horse-drawn carriage attended by two footmen. I have clearly stepped into a neo-gothic alternate reality...
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Dutch Duolingo is having a Star Wars moment, and I am here for it
The title of Dr Magnani’s lecture is “Chaucer's Queer Textualities: Reframing the Authority of the Father of English Poetry”. The lecture will take place in the Heymanszaal in the Groningen Academy Building from 17.30 to 19.00 CEST on 26 May.
meet.google.com/rmi-gntv-jeo
I'm delighted that Dr Roberta Magnani (Swansea) will be giving our final medieval guest lecture of the year here in Groningen on Monday 26 May. Details as follows, and online attendees very welcome!
Just a quick reminder of Prof Corinne Saunders' lecture here in Groningen later today - link for online attendees below!
I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST).
“Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing”
Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt
Wrists still a bit too dodgy to wheel a suitcase so travelling throwback Canadian tourist style with the rucksack with which I backpacked around Europe aged 22 - note Canadian flag 😅 🇨🇦
After a few months of not being allowed to touch a computer/phone due to tendonitis in my wrists, it's a delight to share photos of this week's trip to Bern to give a guest lecture & Amiens for a conference on emotions & space in romance. Five stars for the company & cathedral spires in both cities!
Happy to be on my way to Amsterdam today to give a guest lecture and meet new colleagues!
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Dutch Duolingo is feeling Dantean today
After a fantastic conference in Dusseldorf on multilingual medieval text traditions, I'm happy to be heading *home* to Groningen
Interested in sleep and insomnia and how they relate to wellbeing, now and in the past?
Check out this podcast in which Dr Brigitte Steger and I compare the perspectives of medieval Japan and England!
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My new office! And my current mood after unpacking that lot...
First day in the new job! Groningen looking its delightful best
Adventures in trying to leave Britain: council system requires new address, has drop-down menu of countries from which I can select THE NETHERLANDS, but still tells me this isn't a valid address b/c it doesn't have a UK postcode.
Sigh. All places are belong to the UK, it seems!
I've begun packing up my office, and have discovered that I've wildly underestimated how many boxes I need for my books... #academiaproblems
The view from my Edinburgh accommodation is not so bad... Next up: a rendezvous with the Auchinleck Manuscript!
It's like a never-ending game of bingo that I would really rather stop playing...
Today, a chimney sweep's response to me decamping to the Netherlands for my dream job:
"I would never've guessed that you was a professor. You're far too young and pretty to be a professor."
Sigh. I fear my attempts to show him that this is not a compliment were unsuccessful!
Delighted to announce that this year's Arthurian Literature Derek Brewer Prize winning essay is Ashley Walchester's perceptive ‘A Variant Reading in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1529 Edition of Le Morte Darthur: The Question of Bors’ Threnody'
Many congratulations Ashley!
Happy World Sleep Day!
In John Trevisa's words, 'slepe is kinde and temperat, it doþ to þe body ful mony profitis and fele.'