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Philippa Semper

Dr.

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I currently supervise postgraduate students working in the areas of Old English language and literature and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. This work includes the interpretation of the Old English Phoenix (MPhil), the myth of the woman in the water in Beowulf (MPhil), the labours of the months in two Anglo-Saxon calendars (MPhil), the uses of landscape in Anglo-Saxon poetry (PhD) and the discourses of knowledge and power in relation to sexuality in Old English literature (PhD).

I also supervise postgraduates working on fantasy literature, including Susan Cooper (PhD) and C19th vampire literature (MRes).

I welcome enquiries from graduate students wishing to study for Masters and PhD projects on the following: Old English literature, especially the prose of secular learning and poetry containing runes; text-image relationships in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and in later medieval manuscripts of secular texts; modern fantasy literature.

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