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Ìý Ìý Email: amy.faulkner@ucl.ac.uk Ìý Ìý Ìý

Education and ExperienceÌý

Amy received her BA in English Language and Literature from Christ Church College, Oxford (2013). She went on to do an MA at the University of Nottingham (2014-15), and returned to Oxford for her DPhil in English (awarded 2019). This doctoral research was funded by the AHRC.

Amy has taught Old and Middle English literature in a number of different institutions, including St Peter's College, Oxford,ÌýMagdalen College, Oxford,Ìýthe University of Cambridge and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has been teaching at 911±¬ÁÏÍø since 2019.

Research Interests

Amy works on Old English literature, particularly the group of Old English prose translations traditionally associated with Alfred the Great: the Old English Pastoral Care, Boethius, Soliloquies and Prose Psalms. Her interests include materiality, representations of the mind and the place of Scripture in Old English literature. Her first monograph, Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus, was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2023. This study reads wealth and other material things in the Alfredian translations from a materialist perspective, situating the prose translationsÌýin the wider context of Old English poetry, and investigating the relationship between worldly wealth and immaterial riches. She has also published on such Old English poems as Beowulf, Genesis A, Exodus and The Phoenix. In terms of future research, she is currently working on a new project which seeks to understand the role of the Gospels and the figures of the Evangelists in Old English literature and the material culture of Early Medieval England.

Publications

‘Crafted Things in the Old English Phoenix’, Anglia 141 (2023), 234–257.

The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850–950, ed. Amy Faulkner and Francis Leneghan, Studies in Old English Literature 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024).ÌýÌý

Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus, Anglo-Saxon Studies 46 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2023).

‘Seeking within the SelfÌýin The Metres of Boethius’ Anglo-Saxon England 48 (2022 [for 2019]), 43–62.Ìý

‘Treasure and the Life Course inÌýGenesis A and Beowulf’, in Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Thijs Porck and Harriet Soper (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 229-50.

'Death and Treasure in Exodus and Beowulf’, English Studies 101 (2020), 785-801.

‘The Mind in the Old English Prose Psalms’, The Review of English Studies 70 (2019), 597-617.

‘Royal Authority in the Biblical Quotations of the Old English Pastoral Care’, Neophilologus 102 (2018), 125-40.