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NIEBRZYDOWSKI, SUE
Sue Niebrzydowski is Research Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Bangor University. She teaches late medieval drama and poetry, especially Chaucer, palaeography and codicology. Sue’s work focuses on women and the dialogue between literature and cultural texts that attempt to construct paradigms of medieval womanhood, particularly concentrating on wives and the middle aged. Her recent monograph examining wives in late medieval literature was linked with a conference and a volume of edited essays.Her other main research interest is medieval English presentations of Mary: how these are determined by contemporary constructions of womanhood and how real medieval women responded to the Mother of God. Sue is currently planning a collaborative project examining the specifics of medieval Marian devotion in the British Isles. She is co-editor of Reviews (Medieval and Early Modern), for English and has also contributed articles to Medieval English Theatre and Women’s History Review.
Selected Publications:
Bonoure and Buxum: A Study of Wives in Late Medieval English Literature (Peter Lang AG, 2006)
English; The Journal of the English Association (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Contributed to:
Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (contributor) (University of Wales Press, 2002)
Translation and Religion: Holy Untranslatable? (contributor) (Multilingual Matters, 2005)
Eroticism in Medieval Literature (contributor) (Boydell and Brewer, 2007)