Dr Jennifer Neville
History I was born in Ottawa, Canada.  I completed a BA (Honours) in the English Department at the University of Alberta, where I received the Governor General's Award for the top graduate in the Faculty of Arts in 1990.  Following an MA in the English Department (with courses at the Centre for Medieval Studies) at the University of Toronto (1992), I took up a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University (completed 1996). I joined the English Department at Royal Holloway as a Lecturer in Medieval Literature in 1997. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2004.
Research

My research focuses primarily on Old English poetry.  My publications include Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 27 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). My other research activities can be found under the following headings:

Publications    Conference Papers    Invited Lectures   Current Projects    Future Projects    PhD students
Teaching

In 2001 Royal Holloway awarded me a College Teaching Prize. I was also short-listed for a National Teaching Fellowship in that year.

I contribute to the strong medieval component of the English Department, teaching Old and Middle English to undergraduate students. I also teach on the MA in Medieval Studies run jointly by the History and English Departments and supervise PhD students.

I teach on the following courses at Royal Holloway:

EN1001 Introduction to Medieval Literature
EN2008 Pre-Conquest English I: Myth and History
EN2319 Tolkien's Roots: Old English Poetry & Modern Medievalism
EN3001 Reading Beowulf
EN3100 Beowulf and the Critics
EN5602 (MA) Old English Skills
EN5609 (MA) Old English Riddles
HS5217 (MA) The Research Development Seminar

I have also contributed to EN2004 (Medieval Dream Poetry), EN2005 (Medieval Epic and Romance), EN5607 (MA: Medieval Narrative), EN5611 (MA: Medieval Literary London, led by Dr Ruth Kennedy) and EN5612 (MA: The Visual and the Verbal, led by Dr Ros Field).
Administrative Duties My main areas of responsibility involve serving as Deputy Director of Graduate Studies (with oversight of Taught Postgraduate Programmes), Computer Coordinator, Web Page coordinator, and the Programme Director for the MA in Medieval Studies. I have been a member of the Department's Teaching and Learning Committee and serve as an elected representative to the Arts Faculty Board. I serve on the Student-Staff Committee. In the past I have served as the Study Abroad Programme Advisor. I have also been involved organisation of the London Summer Schools event.
Other Activities I run OERG, the Old English Reading Group, which meets weekly. I am a committee member of TOEBI (Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland), and I organised its annual conference on 1 November 2003. I co-organised and ran a conference entitled 'Recharging: A Weekend Workshop on Old English Pedagogy' at Trinity College, Cambridge (4-5 September 1999).
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