Dr Natalia Petrovskaia

Junior Research Fellow

Contact Information

Clare Hall, Herschel Road
Cambridge
CB1 9AL
Email: np272@cam.ac.uk

For 2013-14 Natalia has been awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust for a project entitled "The Italian Convergence of the Encyclopaedic Traditions of Honorius Augustodunensis and Isidore of Seville". She is undertaking the project in Rome, at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the British School at Rome.

Departmental and College Responsibilities

In 2012-13 Natalia is taught medieval Welsh language to first- and second-year undergraduates at the Department (ASNC Tripos Part I Paper 7) and gave supervisions in Paper 7 (Medieval Welsh Language and Literature), Paper 3 (Brittonic History), and Paper 10 (Palaeography).

Select recent academic activities

• 2010-12 Co-convenor of the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group, part of the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and funded by the Mellon Trust and the Newton Trust
• 2008-Present Co-convenor of the Peterhouse Theory Group
• 2007-8 Co-convenor of the English Faculty Graduate Research Forum

Academic Interests

• Medieval Welsh Language and Literature
• History of Geography
• Medieval European Literature (French, Anglo-Norman, German, Spanish)
• Crusade History

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

• 'Delw y Byd: une traduction médiévale galloise', Etudes Celtiques 39 (2013), pp. 257-277
• ‘Oaths, Pagans and Lions: Arguments for a Crusade Sub-Narrative in Historia Peredur fab Efrawc’, Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies (2012), pp. 1-26

Peer-reviewed Book chapters and conference proceedings:

• 'La disparition du quasi dans les formules étymologiques des traductions galloises de l'Imago Mundi' in E. Louviot, ed., La Formule au Moyen Âge (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 123-141
• ‘Dating Peredur: New Light on Old Problems’ in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 29 (2009), pp. 223-243

This article was reviewed by Prof. Koji Watanabe (Chuo University) in the newsletter of the Japan Association for Welsh Studies

• ‘East and West in De Principis Instructione of Giraldus Cambrensis’, Quaestio Insularis 10 (2009), pp. 45-59
•  ‘Edling or Penteulu? Ambiguities in the Status of Gwalchmai, Nephew of Arthur’, Quaestio Insularis 8 (2007), pp. 113–128

Editorial work:

• Quaestio Insularis 9, ed. N. I. Petrovskaia, D. Potts and B. A. M. Cleworth (2008)

Electonic publications:

• ???????????????(Medieval Welsh Origins of the Grail Legend), Cylchlythyr (Autumn, 2012) (in Japanese)