Dr Jonathan Hui
Departmental and College Responsibilities
- Supervisions in Paper I.5: Old English language and literature
- Supervisions in Paper I.6: Old Norse language and literature
Academic Interests
- Old Norse saga literature
- Medieval European romance
- Onomastics
- Folkloric transmission
- The later reception of pre-modern literature and culture
Selected Publications
Books
- Vilmundar saga viðutan: The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider (London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 2021). [2021 recipient of the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award]
- with Tom Grant, Philip Lavender, Katherine M. Olley, and Minjie Su, Chivalric Sagas from Medieval Iceland (contracted to Oxford University Press/World's Classics, forthcoming).
- with Tom Grant, Öndrur: The Epic of Jarl Andri. A Lost Legend from Medieval Iceland (contracted to Liverpool University Press/Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe, forthcoming).
- volume co-edited with Minjie Su on Norse medievalism in modern Japanese popular culture (contracted to Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).
Articles
- with Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, Francesco Colombo, Caitlin Ellis, Kathryn A. Haley-Halinski, and James McIntosh, ‘Jóns saga leiksveins: A Text and Translation’, in From the Rus' to the Rímur: New Norse Studies [New Norse Studies 2], ed. Shaun F. D. Hughes and Allyn K. Pearson, Islandica 65 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024), 165–209.
- ‘Two Norse Analogues for J. R. R. Tolkien's Beacons of Gondor’, ANQ (2024).
- ‘New Analogical Evidence for Cymbeline’s Folkloric Composition in the Medieval Icelandic Ála flekks saga’, Shakespeare Survey 75, ed. E. Smith (2022), 287–312.
- ‘A Serendipitous Comparison? Jin Yong and J. R. R. Tolkien: Genre, Prosimetrum and Modern Medievalism East and West’, Comparative Critical Studies 18:2-3 (2021), 285–307. [2021 co-recipient of ANZAMEMS's Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize]
- with Caitlin Ellis, James McIntosh, and Katherine M. Olley, ‘Ála flekks saga: A Snow White Variant from Late Medieval Iceland’, Leeds Studies in English 49 (2018), 45–64.
- with Caitlin Ellis, James McIntosh, Katherine M. Olley, William Norman, and Kimberly Anderson, ‘Ála flekks saga: An Introduction, Text and Translation’, Leeds Studies in English 49 (2018), 1–43.
- ‘Cinderella in Old Norse Literature’, Folklore 129:4 (2018), 353–74.
- ‘Bad Beef and Mad Cow Disease in Bósa saga ok Herrauðs’, Scandinavian Studies 90:4 (2018), 461–84.
- ‘The Fornaldarsaga in a Dream: Weaving Fantastical Textures in Stjörnu-Odda draumr’, Quaestio Insularis 17 (2016), 48–73.
Book chapter
- with Tom Grant, ‘Between Myths and Legends: The Guises of Goðmundr of Glæsisvellir’, in Margins, Monsters, Deviants: Alterities in Old Norse Literature and Culture, ed. Rebecca Merkelbach and Gwendolyne Knight (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), pp. 69–98.
Other outputs
- with Tom Grant, riddaraDB (forthcoming).
- with Ben Allport, The Viking Age, c. 790-1066 (2019).
- ‘Vilmundar saga viðutan (‘The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider’), in The Cinderella Bibliography, ed. Russell A. Peck. University of Rochester.
Under submission
- ‘Romancing the Giant’s Wedding: The Arthurianization of the Þrymr Myth in Samsons saga fagra’.
- ‘Othello Meets Water Margin: Shakespearian Echoes in Jin Yong's The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’.
- ‘Yggdrasill in Japanese Role-Playing Video Games’. [essay in above volume on Norse medievalism in Japanese popular culture]
Other ongoing projects
- Gautland in Old Norse Literature. [monograph project]
- Articles on the use of Norse myth in late medieval Icelandic romance.
- Article reassessing the possible influence of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet on late medieval Icelandic literature.
- Articles on Sigrid Undset's medievalism.
- Monograph on Shakespeare's influence on the Hong Kong writer Jin Yong.
- Official English translation of Jin Yong´s The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.
