Congratulations to Marko Trandafilovski and Toby Trusted, joint winners of the 2024 Clemoes Reading Prize.  Marko won for his performance of  Dafydd ap Gwilym’s ‘Trafferth mewn Tafarn‘  in Medieval Welsh, and Toby won for their performance of ‘Charm Against a Wen’ in Old English. An honourable mention is given to Adrián Rodríguez Avila for their […]

The Department is delighted to announce that Dr Dale Kedwards will be joining us as Assistant Professor of Old Norse-Icelandic on 1st September 2024. He is currently a research associate at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, having previously held postdoctoral fellowships in Odense and Zürich. Passionate about interdisciplinary research, after his […]

Congratulations to Finn Longman, first-year PhD student, whose book, The Butterfly Assassin, won the Young Adult Category prize in the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards. You can read more about Finn’s young adult fiction books here: https://finnlongman.com/books/.