Stephanie Hollis BA Adel

Stephanie Hollis BA Adel. PhD ANU Professor of English

Stephanie Hollis has published extensively on Anglo-Saxon literature and society. Her book Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church (1992) includes a study of one of the women who joined the Anglo-Saxon mission in Germany. She is the editor of Writing the Wilton Women (2004), which includes a number of chapters by her on two Latin works by the late eleventh-century Flemish émigré author Goscelin. She has taught both undergraduate and post-graduate courses on Old and Middle English literature, as well as Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman literature. She is the Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies, and co-ordinates an interdisciplinary graduate programme in Medieval and Early Modern European Studies. She is currently writing a book on women and literary culture in England, c. 950-1150, which includes study of Anglo-Norman literature, and draws attention to the seminal influence of tenth and eleventh-century German nunneries on the culture and institutional formation of Anglo-Saxon women’s houses.

Recent publications on the Anglo-Saxon period include:

Writing the Wilton Women: Goscelin‘s Legend of Edith and the Liber confortatorius. Turnhout, Brepols 2004. ‘The Social Milieu of Bald’s Leechbook’, Avista 14.1: 11-16, 2004. ‘ “ The Protection of God and the King”: Wulfstan’s Legislation on Widows’, in: Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, edited by Matthew Townend, pp. 443-60, Turnhout, Brepols 2004. Trinity College, Cambridge, Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche 12, Tempe, Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2004 (with Michael Wright). ‘ St Albans and Women’s Monasticism: Lives and their Foundations in Christina’s World.’, in: Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman, edited by Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 25-52, 2005 (with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne). ‘Strategies of Emplacement and Displacement: St Edith and the Wilton Community’, in: A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes, edited by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, pp. 34-55, Philadelphia, Penn State University Press, 2006.

Recent Supervision:

M.A. Theses: Georgina Patterson: Women in Medieval French and English Arthurian Romance Joanne Graham: The Vita of Christina of Markyate Kerryn Olsen: Tolkien’s Heroes in The Lord of the Rings Elizabeth Evans: Medieval Passion Plays Joanna Greenland: Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Early Modern Versions Ailish McKeown: Medieval Morality Drama David Stillaman: Anglo-Saxon Poetry and the Oral Tradition PhD Theses: Robert Rouse: The Re-creation of Medieval Heroes in Modern Literature Barbara Bennett: Medieval and Early Modern Versions of an Ovidian Narrative Kerryn Olsen: Medieval and Early Modern Vitae of an Anglo-Saxon Female Saint