Dr Matt Lampitt

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of English working on the ERC–UKRI project, MOWLIT: The Medieval March of Wales, c. 1282–1550: Mapping Literary Geography in a British Border Region. https://blog.mowlit.ac.uk/

I am also working on a project entitled ‘Reading Avalon', which explores medieval representations of the geographies, ontologies, and temporalities of Avalon, the place to which King Arthur is taken to be cured of his mortal wounds.

My other research interests include: palaeography and manuscript studies; the troubadours, trobairitz, and literary culture of medieval Occitania; theoretical approaches to medieval literature.

Bio: Having studied French and German at Jesus College, Cambridge (2009-13), I completed an MA in French Literature and Culture (2013-14) and a PhD in French (2015-19) at King’s College London, where I was supervised by Prof. Simon Gaunt and Prof. Julia Crick. I then held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge (2019–2023), before joining the MOWLIT project at the University of Bristol.