Dr. Carrie Griffin

Biography

I joined the University of Limerick in 2015 s as a lecturer in medieval and early modern English literature. Previously I held two postdoctoral fellowships: I was Irish Research Council / Marie Curie CARA CoFund Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-13) at Queen Mary, University of London, as well as NUI Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-09) at UCC. I also held the positions of lecturer in Medieval & Renaissance Literature at UCC (2006-07) and Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Bristol (2013-14).

My current projects include an edited collection on medieval recipes, with Hannah Ryley (University of Oxford); a volume of the Index of Middle English Prose for the Wellcome Library, London; studies on the Caxton fragment in the Bolton Collection, UL; and a special issue of Textual Practice with Mary C. Flannery.

I am a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Early Modern Studies (UL/MICL): https://emslimerick.wordpress.com and I am on the executive committee of the Irish Renaissance Seminar. I am also editor-in-chief of The Ogham Stone, UL's literary journal: https://theoghamstoneul.com.

My research interests include: late medieval & early modern manuscript/print culture; instructional and scientific cultures; women's writing in the medieval and early modern periods; medieval and early modern drama; early modern Irish literature; outlaw studies; digital humanities; 19th century book collecting and sales; and medievalisms.

Activities: acting director (to April 2020) of the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick; Secretary, Early Book Society. Member of review board, Aigne (UCC's Graduate Journal). Reader for The Mediaeval Journal. Member of advisory board, Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies.

Research Interests

Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare and Contemporaries
Drama in the Early Modern period
Bibliography and Codicology
Palaeography
Manuscript and Early Printed Book Studies
Editing Skills

Teaching Interests

Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Shakespeare and Contemporaries
Drama in the Early Modern period
Bibliography and Codicology
Palaeography
Manuscript and Early Printed Book Studies
Editing Skills

Professional Activities

Award

2015 - Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship
2013 - Research Transition Fund
2012 - New Foundations Award (with M. O'Connell)
2012 - Publication Award
2010 - IRC Marie Curie Cara Postdoctoral Fellowship
2010 - The Antiquarian Booksellers Association Award (with M. O'Connell)
2009 - Small Research Grant
2009 - Mobility Grant
2007 - National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship
2005 - Small Research Grant
2005 - Small Research Grant
2001 - Arts Faculty Graduate Fellowship

Association

2015 Member of Steering Committee, The Irish Renaissance Seminar
Co-Ordinator , Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland
Secretary, The Early Book Society
Executive Committee Member, Limerick Early Modern Studies Forum

Employment

2013 University of Bristol - Teaching Fellow
2010 Irish Research Council / University College Cork / Queen Mary, University of London - Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
2007 National University of Ireland / University College Cork - NUI Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

2006 UCC - PhD
1999 UCC - MA
1997 UCC - BA

Publications

Book

2019

Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650: Materiality and Meaning
Carrie Griffin

2013

The Middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy: A Parallel-Text Edition
Carrie Griffin

Book Chapter

2021

Practical Texts
Carrie Griffin
The Oxford Handbook of Women's Writing in English, 1540-1680

2020

Johannes de Sacrobosco
Carrie Griffin
The Chaucer Enyclopedia

2020

Ptolemy
Carrie Griffin
The Chaucer Encyclopedia

2020

"Sterres"
Carrie Griffin
The Chaucer Encyclopedia

2018

Introduction
Carrie Griffin and Emer Purcell
Text, Transmission and Transformation in the European Middle Ages, 1000-1500

2017

Anthologies and Miscellanies
Carrie Griffin
The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature

2016

Introduction
Griffin, Carrie, and Mary C. Flannery
Spaces for Reading in Later Medieval England

2016

'The Play's the Thing: Establishing Boundaries in Anthony Munday's The Downfall of Robert, Earle of Huntington (1598)',
Carrie Griffin
Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions

2014

'Bookish Types: Some Post-Medieval Owners, Borrowers and Lenders of Wise Book Manuscripts'.
Carrie Griffin
Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift Dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on his 70th Birthday

2013

Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality, Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional Manuscripts and Collections
Griffin, Carrie
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption

2012

The Forrester's Manuscript: A Book on the Margins?
Griffin, Carrie
Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition

2011

Writing Textual Materiality: Charles Clark, his Books, and his Bookplate Poem
Griffin, Carrie and Mary O'Connell
Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality

2011

Introduction
Griffin, Carrie, Graham Allen and Mary O'Connell
Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality

2010

Historiography of Medieval Medicine
Griffin, Carrie
Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms - Trends - Methods

2010

Kibre, Pearl
Griffin, Carrie
Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms Trends Methods

2010

Scientific Texts: Artes Liberales and Artes Mechanicae
Griffin, Carrie
Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms Trends Methods

2007

The Wagstaff Miscellany': Compilation, Organisation and Identity in the Book of John Whittocksmead
Griffin, Carrie
Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts