Laura Ashe | |
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Occupation(s) | Literary scholar and academic |
Title | Professor of English Literature |
Academic background | |
Education | Leeds Girls' High School |
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Harvard University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English studies, History |
Sub-discipline | Medieval studies, Renaissance studies |
Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Queen Mary University of London Worcester College, Oxford |
Laura Ashe FRHistS[1] is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (c. 1000–1550). She lectures in English and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.[2][3]
Academic career[edit]
Ashe was educated at Leeds Girls' High School. She went on to read English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She spent the year after her graduation as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.[4]
During her graduate studies she was appointed to a junior research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College.[5]
Prior to joining Worcester College in 2008, Ashe spent two years lecturing at Queen Mary University of London.[6]
In 2009 Ashe won a Philip Leverhulme Prize, for the international impact of her research. She was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of English Literature by the University of Oxford in September 2018.[7]
Media appearances[edit]
In 2015 Ashe was the presenter for BBC Radio 3's A Cultural History of the Plague[8] and has taken part as an expert panelist for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on the topics of The 12th Century Renaissance,[9] Beowulf,[10] Chivalry[11] Le Morte d'Arthur,[12] Purgatory,[13] Thomas Becket and Gawain and the Green Knight.
She contributed to Art that Made Us, an eight-part BBC Two TV series in 2022 presenting an alternate history of Britain through art and literature.[14]
Ashe appeared as an interviewee in the mockumentary series Cunk on Britain (2018) and Cunk on Earth (2022).[15]
Selected publications[edit]
- Ashe, Laura (2016), Richard II: a brittle glory, Penguin Monarchs, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0141979892
- Ashe, Laura (2015), Early Fiction in England: from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer, Penguin Classics, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0141392875
- Ashe, Laura; Patterson, Ian (2014), War and Literature, Essays and Studies, v. 67, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, ISBN 978-1843843818
- Ashe, Laura (2011), Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 68, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521174367
- Ashe, Laura; Djordjević, Ivana; Weiss, Judith (2010), The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, Studies in Medieval Romance, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1846157882
References[edit]
- ^ "List of Fellows (February 2024)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Laura Ashe". Georgina Capel Associates. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Dr Laura Ashe". Oxford University. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Laura helps Danny Dyer trace his Right Royal Family" (PDF). Memento. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "24 April 2003". Cambridge University Reporter. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ Ashe, Laura (2017). The Oxford English Literary History, 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. v. ISBN 0-19-253445-9.
- ^ "Recognition of Distinction 2018" (pdf). Oxford University Gazette. 149 (5315). University of Oxford: 14. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ "Sunday Feature, A Cultural History of the Plague". BBC Radio 3. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance". BBC. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Beowulf". BBC. 5 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Chivalry". BBC. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Le Morte d'Arthur". BBC. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Purgatory". BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Art That Made Us A history of British creativity". connect.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
- ^ Scott, Sean. "Landmark documentary filmmaker Philomena Cunk takes us on a historical odyssey in 'Cunk on Earth'". The Miami Student. Retrieved 8 June 2024.