Caroline (Caz) Batten
is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research focuses on sickness and health, gender and sexuality, and somatic emotion in Old English and Old Norse literature. They received their D.Phil from the University of Oxford.
Guillemette Bolens
is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests are embodied cognition, kinesic intelligence, and sensorimotricity in verbal and visual arts. She is the author of several books, including The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and Cognition in Literary Narrative (2012) and Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture (2021).
Frank Brandsma
is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Language, Literature and Culture. He has published numerous articles, in English and in Dutch, on Arthurian romance and on emotions, including Emotions in Arthurian Romance: Mind – Body – Voice (2015), co-edited with Carolyne Larrington and Corinne Saunders.
Timothy Bourns
is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Scandinavian Studies at University College London. He holds a doctorate in English from St John’s College, University of Oxford, and has previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Iceland and British Columbia.
Isabella Clarke
is a doctoral candidate at Oriel College, Oxford University. Her thesis is on emotions and space in Anglo-Norman, Middle High German, Old Norse and Middle English versions of the medieval Tristan narrative.
Morgan Dickson
is a Lecturer (Maîtresse de conférences) in the Department of English at the University of Picardie in Amiens, France. Her research focuses on Insular literature of the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries in Anglo-Norman and Middle English. A co-edited collection of essays, entitled L’Œuvre en mouvement or Movement in Text and Object, was published in 2022.
Lucie Kaempfer
is a Research Fellow at the University of Geneva and Lecturer at the University of Lausanne. She is interested in the representation of emotion in European medieval literature which she approaches from a comparative, cross-linguistic perspective. She holds a DPhil from Oxford University and was awarded an SNSF Postdoc Fellowship.
Carolyne Larrington
was formerly Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford and is now an Emerita Research Fellow in medieval English literature at St John’s College. She has published extensively in Old Norse-Icelandic, comparative medieval literature, medievalism and Arthurian studies and emotions studies.
Andrew Lynch
is Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on emotions, including most recently The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700, co-edited with Susan Broomhall (2020) and Writing War in Britain and France 1370–1854: A History of Emotions, co-edited with Stephanie Downes and Katrina O’Loughlin (2018).
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir
is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Executive Director of the New Chaucer Society. She has published extensively on emotion in medieval literature, including Emotion in Old Norse Literature: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2017), as well as on comparative and critical approaches to medieval European literature.
Meritxell R. de la Torre
is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. She received her BA from the University of Barcelona and her MA from the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on the relationship between selfhood, body, and emotion in medieval romances.
Hannah Victoria
is a doctoral student at Sorbonne Université. Her research combines approaches of linguistics and queer theory to study a discourse of homoeroticism in the devotional poetry of Hildegard von Bingen and Mechthild von Magdeburg.