Catherine E. Karkov is professor of History of Art and head of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

. Her research centres on early medieval art, especially

Anglo-Saxon art Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period art, Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, ...

, and she has published three monographs. Her first concerns Anglo-Saxon art; the second one on the relation between text and image in

Anglo-Saxon literature Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th- ...

; and the third on how Anglo-Saxon writers imagined England as a place, how Anglo-Saxon England is understood by modern audiences, and the "fraught history of 'Anglo-Saxon' studies".

Work

Her second book focuses on

MS Junius 11 The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Written in the 10th century, it contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English, the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England. Modern editors have ...

, she argues that a complete edition of the manuscript leaves out the many illustrations at its own peril; these illustrations occur at dramatic moments in the four poems and help elucidate the allegorical import of many passages. As editor of ''Slow Scholarship'', Karkov highlighted the ways in which research quality is measured in the UK (via the

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), over work, publishing models which reward research that aligns with the

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, an increasingly precarious workforce in

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all contribute to making new and innovative scholarship difficult. The collection developed theories from the Slow Food movement to propose ways of creating thoughtful, new scholarship.

Publications

Monographs

*''Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia'' (Boydell, 2020) *''Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University'' (Boydell, 2019) *''The Art of Anglo-Saxon England'' (Boydell, 2011) *''The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England'' (Boydell, 2004) *''Text and Picture in Anglo-Saxon England: Narrative Strategies in the Junius 11 Manuscript'' (Cambridge UP, 2001)

Edited

*''Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures'' (Punctum Books: 2020, with Anna Kłosowska and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei) *''Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory of Timothy Reuter'' (Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2010; with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly) *''Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico'' (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press, 2009) *''Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald'' (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, with S. Baxter and J. Nelson) *''Cross and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England'' (Morgantown: West Virginia UniUP, 2008, with Sarah Keefer and Karen Jolly) *

References

External links

Catherine E. Karkov's page
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