News feedsDr Marianne O'Doherty
English
School of Humanities
Avenue Campus
University of Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON
SO17 1BJ
Position: Lecturer
Location: 65/2041
Extension: 24534
Telephone: (023) 8059 4534
Email Dr Marianne O'Doherty
Research interests
My research interests include: medieval travel writing; contacts between the Latin West and non-Christian cultures in the late Middle Ages; late medieval and early modern geographical writing and cartography; medieval literary and imaginative engagements with the East; textual connections between England and continental Europe (in particular Italy and France); reception studies; medieval books, readers, and reading. As well as teaching and researching in English, I am a member of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture here at Southampton. I would be pleased to discuss potential research topics with prospective MRes and PhD students wishing to work on texts and topics in any of the above areas.
Research projects
I am currently revising my doctoral thesis as a monograph. The Indies and the Medieval West: Thought, Report, Imagination will be published by Brepols in 2012. I am also working on an article that explores the impact of travellers' experiences of navigation in the Indian Ocean on late-Medieval mapping. "Postcards from the Edge: The View from the Oceanic Periphery in the Later Middle Ages" will be published in a special issue of the Bulletin of International Medieval Research, Within Reach: European Peripheries in the Middle Ages (forthcoming). In collaboration with Alison Gascoigne (Archaeology, Southampton) and Leonie Hicks (History, Southampton), I am co-organising a set of sessions on the theme of Medieval Routes for the International Medieval Congress 2010.
Publications
"The Viaggio in Inghilterra of a Viaggio in Oriente: Odorico da Pordenone's Itinerarium from Italy to England", Italian Studies 64 (2009), forthcoming.
"'They are like beasts, for they have no law': Ethnography and Constructions of Human Difference in Late-Medieval Translations of Marco Polo’s Book." Travels and Travelogues in the Middle Ages. Ed. Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine. New York: AMS Press, forthcoming (2009).
Biographical notes
I studied for my BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Leeds, completing my doctoral thesis at the Institute for Medieval Studies in 2006. I have taught for the Open University and at Leeds, where I also worked for several years on the annual International Medieval Congress.
| Module title | Module code | Discipline | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaucer and the Writing of his Age | ENGL2062 | English Studies | Course leader |
| Travel Writing: Medieval to Early Modern | ENGL3051 | English Studies | Course leader |
| Dangerous Readings | ENGL2064 | English Studies | Tutor |
| Dissertation | ENGL3016 | English Studies | Tutor |
| Language, Text and Culture 1 | ENGL1008 | English Studies | Tutor |
| Literary Transformations | ENGL1080 | English Studies | Tutor |
| Medieval and Renaissance Palaeography | CMRC6003 | Medieval & Renaissance Culture | Tutor |
| Renaissance & Reformations : generic skills | CMRC6007 | Medieval & Renaissance Culture | Tutor |
| Renaissance & Reformations: research essay | CMRC6008 | Medieval & Renaissance Culture | Tutor |
| Renaissances and Reformations | CMRC6002 | Medieval & Renaissance Culture | Tutor |