MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxford), FHEA

Lecturer

Contact Details:

• E: dc147@leicester.ac.uk 

• T: +44 (0)116 252 2636

Research Interests

Dr Clark specialises in medieval literature with a current focus on medieval gender and sexuality and the modern reception of medieval literature.

His publications include: Gender, Violence, and the Past in Edda and Saga (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval Literature (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is translator of The Saga of Bishop Thorlak (Viking Society for Northern Research, forthcoming 2011), and co-editor of Blood, Sex, Malory: the Morte Darthur, its sources, and reception (Boydell, 2011); Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (Boydell & Brewer, 2010), and Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2007).

He is currently writing a book on friendship in medieval European literature.

Projects

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Clark is currently supervising a PhD on representations of Satan in Old English and Old Norse literature, and would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in the following topics:

• Gender and sexuality in medieval literature
• Old English and Old Norse literature
• The reception of the Middle Ages in literature and film

Teaching and Administration

Teaching

• EN2030: The Study of Language (Old English)
• EN2040: Medieval Literature
• EN2060: Critical Theory
• MA in ELR:
• Old English and Old Norse heroic poetry
• Gender and sexuality in medieval literature

Administrative Roles

• Director of Exams
• Literary Leicester committee
• Combined Studies Admissions Tutor
• Medieval Research Centre Committee

Recent Publications

Full list of publications