Dr Caitlin Flynn

Associate Lecturer Late Medieval English Literature

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1876

Email

cef7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Office 5

Location

Beethoven Lodge

 

Biography

Prior to becoming an Associate Lecturer at St Andrews, Caitlin Flynn was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2017-19).

Dr Flynn's primary research interests include: gender and sexuality, narratology and storytelling, humanism, and humour in Older Scots and Middle English poetry. 

Her first book, The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry, was released by Manchester University Press in 2022.

Teaching

Undergraduate (2023/24)

• EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 (Lecturer)
• EN2003 Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Lecturer, Tutor)
• EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance (Lecturer, Tutor)
• EN2901 Comedy in English Literature, Evening Degree (Lecturer)
• EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Module Organiser)
• EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature (Module Organiser)
• EN4398 Undergraduate Short Dissertation (Supervisor)

MLitt Medieval English (2023/24)

• EN5015 Reading the Medieval Text (Lecturer)
• EN5020 Old English (Lecturer)
• EN5045/EN5046 Middle English Literature in Context (Module Organiser, Lecturer)
• EN5099 MLitt Dissertation (Supervisor)

Student Welfare Officer Semester 2 2023-24

Selected publications

• The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry

  Flynn, C., 5 Apr 2022, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 260 p. (Manchester medieval literature and culture)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• A critical companion to Gavin Douglas

  Flynn, C. E. (ed.), 1 Jan 2024, (Accepted/In press) Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Open access

  A 'Wyfis Sawe': antifeminism, jurisprudence, and critical reading in the Older Scots 'The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis'

  Flynn, C. E., 6 Jul 2023, In: Das Mittelalter. 28, 1, p. 32-48

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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