TLRH | Poetry and History in the 1850s: Ann Hawkshaw and John Mitchell Kemble

Friday, 4 December 2020, 4 – 5pm The Kemble Lecture 2020 will be
delivered by Prof. Clare Lees (University of London). The event is
sponsored by the School of English and hosted in partnership with
Trinity Long Room Hub. This annual lecture series in honour of John
Mitchell Kemble, begun in 2005, invites distinguished scholars to
speak on topics associated with Kemble: the history, literature,
and archaeology of pre-Norman England, and its later reception,
especially in the 19th century. This year we are delighted to
welcome Prof. Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature,
Director of the Institute of English Studies, and Pro-Dean for
National Research Promotion & Facilitation, School of Advanced
Study, University of London. Prof. Lees's research interests
include early medieval literatures, languages, and cultures of
Britain and Ireland, gender and sexuality studies, and histories of
place and belief. Her most recent work explores how modern and
contemporary poets, writers, and artists engage with early medieval
cultures. Recent major publications include The Contemporary
Medieval in Practice, with Gillian R. Overing (London: UCL Press,
2019), and The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English
Literature, ed. Lees (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press,
2013; paperback 2016). Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/