Our 2011 Featured Speakers

We are pleased to announce our 2011 featured speakers.

Chris Loveluck teaches medieval archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He is the excavator and explicator of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Flixborough. More recently, with the support of the British Academy and the AHRC, he has worked with French and Belgian colleagues on a series of archaeological survey projects which seek to uncover the dynamics of rural societies in coastal Flanders and the Loire valley, and he is writing a book coming out of this work on northwest Christendom from the Carolingians to the Crusades. He is also working on a long-term project on Stavnsager-Ammelhede, a 150 hectare site in northeast Jutland, which may have been one of the earliest towns in Denmark.

Howard B. Clarke is Professor emeritus at University College Dublin.  His work, which spans the whole of the Middle Ages and engages in both history and archaeology, has long been focused on towns, especially Dublin and Ireland's other urban communities.  His voluminous publications on Dublin center on the topography of the medieval city, its ethnic composition and its ecclesiastical history.  He has co-edited a series of influential volumes on comparative urban history and Ireland and Scandinavia, and has participated both as an editor and contributor to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project. He has also written extensively on topics coming out of Domesday Book. 

Monika Otter teaches medieval and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on Latin, French and English literature from England and northern France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. She writes on historiography, saints' lives and romance as well as the complicated interfaces between these genres; the development of "fiction" as an idea and as a category of literature; women's literature and gender, and translation theory.