Research output per year
Research output per year
BA Hons(Dunelm.), MA(Dunelm.), PhD(Dunelm.)
BS8 1TB
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Leah Tether is a scholar of medieval French and English literature, Arthurian romance, book history and publishing studies. She completed her PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham in 2009 and then became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cultures of the Digital Economy Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. She has a background in trade publishing, having worked at Penguin Books. She took up the post of MA Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in 2012, and then became a Principal Lecturer in 2014.
Leah joined the University of Bristol in 2015 as Senior Lecturer. She became Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2019. She served as the Graduate Education Director for the Faculty of Arts (Deputy Dean of Arts, Graduate Studies) from 2017 to 2021, and was the Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies in 2017/18. From 2021, she was University Education Director (Quality) before being appointed as Head of the School of Humanities for 2022-24. Her current research looks at the publishing histories of vernacular medieval narratives from manuscript to digital. Her monographs include The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval: Content and Continuation, Extension and Ending (D.S. Brewer, 2012), Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France (D.S. Brewer, 2017), The General Reader and the Academy: Medieval French Literature and Penguin Classics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Hidden Secrets of a Medieval Fragment (ARC Humanities Press, 2021). She is now working on a project, funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, exploring medieval literature that didn't make it to print in the early-modern period, with a monograph on the subject due for publication in 2025 with DeGruyter entitled Unpublished: Medieval Literature and the Early-Modern Publisher.
Research supervision
Leah is able to supervise research postgraduates in the following areas: Arthurian Literature (French and English) with a focus on manuscript studies; digital humanities; history of the book; medieval and digital reading cultures; medieval French literature 1200-1400; publishing studies.
Teaching
Leah’s current undergraduate teaching covers medieval English and French medieval literature, trans-historical Arthurian literature, publishing and digital studies. At postgraduate level, she teaches on material and digital cultures of literature.
International Vice-President - International Courtly Literature Society
Fellow - Royal Historical Society
Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Associate Editor - Cambridge University Press series 'Elements in Publishing and Book Culture'
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Email: [email protected]
Honorary Professor, University College London
1 May 2023 → …
External Examiner - English (Medieval/Early-Modern), University of Lincoln
1 Sept 2021 → …
External Examiner - Publishing, University College London
1 Feb 2019 → 30 Nov 2022
External Examiner - Publishing, Bath Spa University
1 Sept 2015 → 1 Nov 2019
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Tether, L. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
Hurcombe, M. J. (Principal Investigator), Hanna, E. (Co-Investigator), Mukherjee, S. (Co-Investigator), Pollmann, K. F. L. (Co-Investigator), Tether, L. (Co-Investigator), Pohl, B. (Co-Investigator), Hales, S. J. (Co-Investigator) & Hodos Lucas, T. (Co-Investigator)
8/10/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
Tether, L. (Recipient)
Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively
Tether, L. (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Tether, L. (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference