Laura Ashe
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Laura Ashe | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupations | Literary scholar and academic |
| Title | Professor of English Literature |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Leeds Girls' High School |
| Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English studies, History |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval studies, Renaissance studies |
| Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Queen Mary University of London Worcester College, Oxford |
Laura Ashe FRHistS[1] is a British historian of English medieval literature, history and culture (c. 1000–1550). She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College.[2][3]
Ashe was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire[4] and was educated at Leeds Girls' High School. She went on to read English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She spent the year after her graduation as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.[5]
During her graduate studies she was appointed to a junior research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College.[6]
Prior to joining Worcester College in 2008, Ashe spent two years lecturing at Queen Mary University of London.[7]
In 2009 Ashe won a Philip Leverhulme Prize, for the international impact of her research. She was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of English Literature by the University of Oxford in September 2018.[8]
Research interests
Ashe's early research focused on the multilingual literary environment of England after the Norman Conquest.[9] Her first monograph, Fiction and History in England, 1066–1200 (2007), explored how romances and chronicles written in English, French and Latin bolstered ideologies of national identity and imperialism during England's first colonial forays into Ireland.[10]
More recent projects include a biography of Richard II (2016), a study of English literary history between 1000 and 1350 (2017), and an examination of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer in relation to the themes of subjectivity, recognition and ethical agency (2025).[10]
Ashe has served as an editor of the journal New Medieval Literatures, published by Boydell & Brewer, since 2016.[11]
