Somerville Medievalist Research Group

Somerville is home to one of the largest groups of medievalists in Oxford: our interests range from manuscripts to music theory, from genre to gender studies, from the British Isles to Russia.
We meet regularly for informal lunchtime discussions, but also organise interdisciplinary work-shops and conferences. Over the last five years, these have resulted in a series of conferences and workshops as well as two book publications.
- Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture, ed. Manuele Gragnolati, Almut Suerbaum. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010
- Polemic. Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse, ed. George Southcombe, Almut Suerbaum, Benjamin Thompson. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
Work on a third volume, on Temporality, is under way.
Fellows
Almut Suerbaum, Fellow & Tutor in German
Francesca Southerden, Fellow & Tutor in Italian
Annie Sutherland, Fellow & Tutor in Old and Middle English
Natalia Nowakowksa, Fellow & Tutor in History
Benjamin Thompson, Fellow & Tutor in History
Associates
Sean Curran, JRF in Music, Trinity College, Cambridge
Manuele Gragnolati, Professor of Italian, Sorbonne; Senior Research Fellow, Somerville
Racha Kirakosian, Assistant Professor of Medieval German and Medieval Religion, Harvard
Alastair Matthews, Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Southern Denmark
Monika Otter, Associate Professor in Medieval English, Dartmouth College
George Southcombe, Director, Sarah Lawrence Programme, Wadham
Dr Brian McMahon, Chapel Director, Somerville College, Oxford
Dr Laura Slater, Fulford Junior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
Dr David Bowe, University of Cork
Dr Jim Harris, Ashmolean Museum
Dr Oren Margolis, I Tatti, Florence
Dr Katherine Sykes, University of Birmingham
Mary MacRobert, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford
Dr Johannes Wolff