Dr Carrie Griffin
NUI Postdoctoral Fellow, School of English, University College Cork.
Research Interests
Medieval manuscripts (esp. miscellanies and commonplace books); early printed books; the Wise Book tradition; Renaissance drama; book history and textual materiality; text and hypertext; Romantic and Victorian medievalism; outlaw literature; bibliography and textual editing; history of science & medicine.
Selected Publications
“‘A Good Reder and a Deuoute’: Instruction, Reading and Devotion in The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy”. Journal of the Early Book Society For Manuscripts and Printing History 10 (2007): 104-126;
“The ‘Wagstaff Miscellany’: Compilation, Organisation and Identity in the Bookof John Whittocksmead.” In Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts. Ed. K. Cawsey & J. Harris. Dublin: Four Courts, April 2007, pp. 175-188;
Edition of the Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy in preparation for Middle English Texts, Heidelberg.
Funded Projects
-The Making Books, Shaping Readers Project on book history and textual materiality at UCC’s English Department
-Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007-2009, to edit the Wise Book.
Current Teaching
- MA, Medieval and Renaissance English, UCC, Palaeography and Manuscript Studies Section & classes on Women’s Writing and Folk Drama.
- Medieval Romantic; third-year seminar course with Mary O’Connell.
- The Hero in Early Literature: Text and Hypertext; second year seminar course with Dr Orla Murphy (see http://heroespage.wordpress.com
- Making Books, Shaping Readers Graduate Training Module on Book History and Textual Materiality, UCC. See http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr/GraduateTrainingProgramme2009/
Current Graduate Supervision
One PhD Student working on Tudor drama and occular culture. Have also supervised three first-class honours MA theses on textual editing, Renaissance drama and Malory
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