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Research, Publications, Supervision & Teaching
Publications
Accepted, under peer-review
Horses in the Viking Age. In Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History: The Interdisciplinary Handbook for the Study of Horses Through Time. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
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Accepted, post-review.
The Animal Heard: Soundscapes, sound-making, and animal-human relations in medieval Iceland. Collegium Medievale.
Accepted, post-review.
Grasbítar and Those Who Know Them: Sheep and Men in Brennu-Njáls saga. In T. Bourns and C. Phelpstead (eds), Eco-Norse: Essays on Old Norse Literature and the Environment. London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
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Forthcoming
(co-authored with Dr Karen Milek) Cattle, cooperation, and the co-settlement of Iceland. Viking.
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2024
(Book review) Review of Jørgensen, Dolly. The Medieval Pig. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. August, 2024. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60501
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2023
(Book review) Werewolves in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature. Between the Monster and the Man. Saga-Book 47: 151-153.
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2023
(co-authored with Dr Keith Ruiter) The Role of Horses in Viking Age Ritual Action. In Leszek GardeÅ‚a, Peter Pentz, Peter Vang Petersen & Sophie Bønding (eds), The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World. Oxbow.
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2023
(co-authored with Dr Keith Ruiter) Exploring Animals as Agents and Objects in Early Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. In L. Gardela and K. Kajkowski (eds), Animals and Animated Objects in Past Societies. Turnout: Brepols.
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2023
Reading animal-human relations: Sámr and Gunnarr in Njáls saga. Scandinavian Studies 95:1, 35–55.
2022
Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to Sagas. Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
2021
(co-authored with Dr Steven P. Ashby) Of pots and porridge: food, cooking, and serving in Old Norse sources. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 17, 221–243.
2021
Feeling at Home with Anymals in Old Norse Sources. Home Cultures 18:2, 83–104
DOI: 10.1080/17406315.2021.1963622
2019
(Book review) Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia. Saga-Book 43: 183–186.
2017 (as Evans)
Schwein – E.1 – IV.1 Narrative Texte. In Obermaier, Sabine, (Ed.). Tiere in der Literatur des Mittelalters Ein interdisziplinäres Lexikon. Online. Available at: https://www.animaliter.uni-mainz.de/2018/01/04/schwein-e-1-iv-1-narrative-texte/
2014 (as Evans)
The Horse and his Hero in Old Norse Literature: A symbiotic relationship in the heroic poetry of the Poetic Edda. In Agnes Broome, Pei-Sze Chow, and Nichola Smalley, (Eds). Illuminating the North: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network Conference 2013. London: Norvik Press, pp.45–60.
Selected Recent Talks
July 2024
"Being Bear: Bearskins, Warmth, and Protection in Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia"
Invited paper in the session 'Animal-like: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' at the Leeds International Medieval Congress.
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May 2024
"Being bear-ly dressed: human relationships with bears and bearskins in the Viking and medieval North".
Invited talk to the Viking Studies Research Group, University of York
May 2024
"(The) Animal Matters: exploring multidisciplinary approaches to animal-human relationships in the medieval north"
Invited online talk to the Scottish Society for Northern Studies
May 2024 - with Dr Keith Ruiter
"How to make an animal: Post-humanism, para-animals, and predatory relationships" in the session “Who’s in? Who’s out? Interrogating the limits of inclusivity and exclusivity in the study of the Viking Age."
Nordic TAG
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September 2023
Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk Series
Invited by Dolly Jørgensen (Stavanger University).
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July 2023
“What Does the Dog Say? Listening to Animals in the Sagas of Icelanders”
Invited contribution to the Leeds IMC session Sound Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, III.
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May 2023
“Medieval Icelandic sagas as vehicles for knowledge exchange”
Paper presented at the COMPASS Annual Symposium: Knowledge in Motion: Human–Non-Human Relationships at Linköping University. Also invited to contribute to the roundtable discussion: “Researching Human – Non-Human Relationships: Methodologies and Challenges”.
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May 2023
“Living and dying with Vikings: Interdisciplinary perspectives on human-animal relations in the Viking Age”
An invited 45-minute talk to the Viking Studies Research Group at the University of York. Co-presented with Prof. Karen Milek.
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April 2023
“Bones, Genetics, Performance: How to approach interdisciplinary work”
A roundtable discussion at Teaching Medieval French: Sustainable Approaches for the Next Generation (University of Warwick). Invited by Dr Liam Lewis.
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August 2022
“Man’s best friend? Re-evaluating the dog-human relationship in Viking-age multispecies communities”
Paper presented at the 18th International Saga Conference, Universities of Helsinki and Tartu.
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July 2022
“‘When is a pig not a pig? When it’s a pig’: Rethinking Animal Categorisation in Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia”
Paper presented at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
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July 2022
“More-than-human worlds: a (pre)historical case study”
Paper presented at the European Society for Environmental History Conference 2022, University of Bristol, as part of a session on “Animal Intimacies: bodies and beasts”.
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June 2022
“Herd and home in the place-making of medieval Iceland”
An invited 45-minute talk as part of the 2022 Birkbeck Medieval Seminar on “Animality and Medieval Concepts of Place”.
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May 2022
“Bloodthirsty plants and anxiety-inducing sheep: an ecocritical reading of Brennu-Njáls saga”
Paper presented at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
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November 2021
“Cattle, cooperation, and the co-settlement of Iceland”
Paper presented at ViS Conference 2021: The Viking Age as a Foreign Place, University of Oslo. Co-authored with Karen Milek.
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September 2021
“Bears, bearskins, bear-warmth and bear-ness in the Viking Age: intersections between archaeology, sagas and folklore”
Paper presented at the EAA virtual annual meeting, Kiel University. Co-authored with Karen Milek.
Supervision
2023
Dissertation supervision on the Viking and Medieval Norse Studies MA (Oslo)
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2021
Vikings in Northumbria, a co-taught MA module in the Centre for Medieval Studies
MA Dissertation supervision (until Autumn 2022) on the Medieval Studies and Medieval Literature and Language MA (York)
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2020
MA dissertation supervision on the Medieval Literature and Language MA (York)
Teaching
2021
Vikings in Northumbria, a co-taught MA module in the Centre for Medieval Studies
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2020
Vikings in Northumbria, a co-taught MA module in the Centre for Medieval Studies
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2018
Old Norse Literature I; High Medieval Literature (York)
2017
Old Norse Literature I and II; Late Medieval Literature (York)
2016
History and Theory of Archaeology; Historical Themes in Archaeology (York)
2015
Old Norse Language (York)