Dr Carole Maddern
Position held:
Lecturer in English Literature (part-time)
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7451
Email:
c.maddern (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 311
3rd Floor
Warmington Tower
Office hours:
Mon 13.00-14.00
BA (Hons) English, London University, 1989; M.A. Medieval English Language and Literature, King’s College London, 1991; PhD, King’s College London, 2001; freelance lecturer, London University, 1994- ; permanent appointment, Goldsmiths College, 2004
Teaching
I am currently the convenor of Old English.
Areas of supervision
Professional activities
- Member of the London Medieval Society, TOEBI, International Courtly Literature Society
- Chair of the External Degree English Programme
Research interests
My research interests include Old English and Middle English (language and literature), the development of the English language, Renaissance and Restoration drama, gender studies; I am interested in medieval romance, women in medieval literature, stylistics, essay writing skills. I have worked on the Old English Thesaurus. I am currently preparing a book on women in Medieval romance which focuses on female mobility.
Selected publications
- The Figure of the Travelling Woman in Medieval English Romance (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming)
- A Guide to Answering Commentary Questions (University of London, 2004)
- Literature of the Later Middle Ages (University of London, 1998; revised edn. 2000)
- ‘Thu Cwen, Lare Lufiende’: Changing Representations of the Learned Female in Medieval texts of Apollonius of Tyre (London Medieval Society, 2000)