Editorial Committee
Matthew Firth: editor vol 10
@_MattFirth_ | Researcher profile

Matthew is an Associate Lecturer at Flinders University, Adelaide, and a Research Associate at University of Adelaide and Australian Catholic University. His research interests focus on medieval history writing and depictions of the English past in later medieval texts. He is also assistant editor for the Brepols series East Central Europe, 476–1795, is the review editor for the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, and is presently working on his first monograph, a biographical study of English queens-consort in the years 850-1000, scheduled for publication in the Routledge Lives of Royal Women series.
Ashley castelino: Deputy Editor vol 10 | editor vol 11
@ashcastelino1 | Academia profile

Ashley Castelino is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, working on supernatural dogs in Old Norse literature. His interests span the wider medieval and medievalist worlds, from Middle English lions to Viking images in modern India, with a special focus on human-animal studies. Ashley holds a BA in English Literature and History from Durham University and an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge University.
lindsay church: Social Media Manager vol 10 | Deputy Editor & Social Media Manager Vol 11
@lindsaychurch | Academia profile

Lindsay Church is a third year PhD candidate at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS), where she is a Special Provost-Alumni Scholar. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on alterity, grief, and imagined community in medieval and contemporary Arthurian adaptations. While she mainly focuses on medieval literature and pop culture, Lindsay also has an interest in early modern literature, particularly women writers of the period. Her SSHRC-funded MA research focused on this interest, tracing female literary spaces in the translation work of the Scottish writer/translator Anna Hume.
ayaka nguyen: Deputy editor & fundraising officer vol 11

A Maritime Archaeology graduate with a keen interest in paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, Ayaka’s master’s thesis explored the modern modes of knowledge transmission of Japanese whaling heritage. She currently works in the field of Dendrochronology at a non-profit research institute specialising in archaeometry as well as gaining exposure to Sclerochronology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany). Her primary research interest is in climate reconstruction, utilising marine bivalve proxies to unveil the secrets of Earth’s past. Her other academic interests include exploring Old Norse and Medieval French literature, as well as East Asian theatrical heritage and literary traditions. Recently, she took part in a Taiga Archaeology expedition in Mongolia.
Amanda Burrows: Reviews cO-Editor vol 10 & 11

Amanda Burrows is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Saskatchewan in the English department. Her research focuses on the representation of women and magic in Middle English romances approaching the representation of magic from both a literary and historical perspective.
Maria Gloria Tumminelli: Reviews co-Editor vol 10 & 11

Maria Gloria’s research focuses on the history and marginalised experiences of the Roma in the early modern period as well as the contemporary implications of present-day minority Italian experiences. She was awarded a Masters degree from the University of Milan (2015) with the thesis, ‘Gypsies in the Duchy of Milan and the Metamorphosis of the Economical Assistance, XV- XVII’, and a PhD from the University of Pavia (2019), with the thesis, ‘Gypsies in the Spanish Empire System, Soldiers, Bandits and Vagabonds between Milan, Naples and Castile, centuries XVI-XVII’. In 2020 she was awarded the Guglielmo Savoldelli scholarship award promoted by Archivio Bergamasco. Maria Gloria also collaborates with several European research groups, such as the Max Weber Programme for Multidisciplinary Research for the Mobilities in Early Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean and the Prague Forum for Romani History.
Executive Committee
Michele seah: secretary & Treasurer vol 10 & 11
@mlcseah | Academia profile

Michele Seah is a scholar of queens and queenship with broader interests in more general royal studies. Her doctoral research focused on the economic and financial resources of the later fifteenth-century queens consort of England. Examining their scale and extent, her research facilitates greater understanding of how queens consort were provided for and how they used such resources. Her current research projects reflect her interests in other English royals, focusing on diverse persons such as Henry II, a twelfth-century English king, and Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr, the last two queens consort of Henry VIII, king of England in the sixteenth century.
Erica Steiner: Web Editor vol 10 & 11
@NinoxStrenua82 | H-Net profile

Erica Steiner is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney in the Celtic Studies department, and her thesis explores the history and historiography of Insular tattooing from antiquity to the early medieval period. As well having as a BA (Hons) in Medieval Studies, with a thesis entitled ‘The Dating and Datability of Beowulf in an Historical and Eschatological Context’, Erica also holds a BSc in Marine Geophysics. Her other research projects include studies in landscape archaeology and geomythology, issues of etymology and (mis)translation, as well as representations of the past in modern media. Outside of Ceræ, Erica is also Book Reviews Editor for Limina Journal as well as a long-serving Communications Officer for the Australian Early Medieval Association.
General Committee Members
Jenny Davis Barnett
@Jenny_D_Barnett | Academia profile

Jenny is currently a postgraduate student in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Her current research in Intellectual and Literary History focuses on the Satanic Witch of the Sabbath in medieval France.
Julian Calcagno

Julian is a third year PhD candidate at Flinders University, Adelaide. His thesis focuses on interpretations of honour and shame in Anglo-Saxon legal systems. He is particularly interested in law codes and ecclesiastical penitentials. He previously completed his BA with Honours at Monash University, Melbourne.
james cogbill
Researcher profile

James Cogbill is a DPhil candidate in medieval History at the University of Oxford. His research explores the mutually-inscribing interconnectivity of the premodern ruling family and ‘political culture’ – the framework of structures, practices and expectations within which a polity’s political actors operate – in the Late Byzantine period (c. 1261-1461). He previously completed a BA in Ancient and Medieval History at the University of Birmingham and an MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford.
lorenzo curatella
Researcher profile

Lorenzo is a PhD student at the ZEGK (Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften) of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany), in cotutelle with Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy). His doctoral research focuses on funerary culture in Rome in the Late Middle Ages. He is also interested in the study of religious practices in the Middle Ages and the history of the papacy. He obtained the title of ‘Specialist in Archaeological Heritage’ with honours at Sapienza University of Rome (2019), with a thesis about Medieval Epigraphy and Antiquities titled: ‘Sepulchres of Prestige in Rome in the Late Middle Ages. The Knight of Santa Prassede’. He obtained his master’s degree with honours in Medieval Archaeology at University of Roma Tre (2016), with a thesis titled: ‘The late medieval necropolis of the vicus ad Carinas‘. From 2013 to 2018 he participated in the excavation and research project at the Templum Pacis and the vicus ad Carinas, in the Imperial Fora in Rome. During winter 2018, he participated in the excavation campaign at the medieval site of Grange Castle in Dublin.
Meredith Cutrer
Researcher profile

Meredith Cutrer is currently a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation focuses on exile in early medieval Ireland and Britain. Her other academic interests include Latin translation, late antique Egypt, Early Irish law, historical theology, art history, and Latin and Early Irish literature. Meredith participates regularly in archaeological digs including Tintagel, Vindolanda, Glendalough, Kazakly-yatkan (Uzbekistan), and Cap de Cavalleria (Menorca).
Gavin Foster

Gavin Foster is a third-year PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research interests include Tolkien studies, Old English literature and translation, and queer theory. His SSHRC and Killam funded dissertation aims to trace trajectories of grief through the experiences of female characters in Old English oral-formulaic poetry, Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Gwendolyne Knight

Gwendolyne Knight is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Medieval Studies (History Dept.) at Stockholm University, where her project examines changes in witchcraft legislation and adjudication in medieval Scandinavia. For her doctoral thesis she looked at shapeshifting narratives in early medieval English and Irish text using an approach derived from cultural anthropology. Her research interests coalesce around the intersections between magic/esotericism, science, and religion, particularly during the earlier Middle Ages. She is also a board member of the research association MEARCSTAPA.
Essi Nuutinen
academia profile

Essi is a folkloristics graduate with a multidisciplinary interest in research. Essi’s master’s thesis concerned the representations of animals and the humane in Spanish animal tales. She selected and translated the tales from Spanish to Finnish and analyzed them using the methods of close reading, qualitative content analysis and thematization. Her academic interests include exploring human-animal relationships, visual and textual representations of nonhuman animals, medieval Icelandic sagas, manuscripts, and palaeography.
Brigitta Schvéd
@brigittaschved | Academia profile

Brigitta Schvéd is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Pécs, Hungary. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in the comparative conceptual as well as visual analysis of early modern English and Central European political media. Having obtained her BA degree in History and Art History at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2014, she continued her studies with a focus on medieval and early modern European history at the same institute, completing her MA degree with honours in 2018. Since 2018, her doctoral research has centred on the early modern conceptualisation and political iconography of the ‘balance of power’, with a special focus on the incorporation of the concept into English and Hungarian political discourses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Brigitta has also been a visiting researcher at Senate House Library (London, UK) in 2019, completed the Concepta Summer School: ‘Introduction to Conceptual History’ (University of Helsinki, 2019), and attended the London International Palaeography School (University of London, 2019).
Dain Swenson
@dainswenson | Academia profile

Dain Swenson is currently studying a masters in archaeology theory and methods at Lund University, Sweden. He completed a MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies at the University of Iceland in 2019, conducting a study on Viking Age diet through isotope analysis for a thesis. Prior to that he received a BA at Arizona State University in Anthropology in 2017. Dain has worked professionally both in Europe and the United States as a field archaeologist and in museums. His research interests include geophysical archaeology and changes in old Nordic religion in the Iron Age.
David White

David is a higher degree research student at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. For his Masters of Research degree, David undertook an examination of the construction and perception of Theoderic the Amal’s rule of Italy in the late fifth and early sixth century. David’s current PhD research focuses on who/what constituted the court of Theoderic and how it influenced the post-Roman administration of Italy and its peripheries. Additional to his studies of Theoderic, David is interested in the continuity, adaption or rejection of classical literature, architecture and ideology in the Early Medieval period.
Malek j. zuraikat

Malek J. Zuraikat is an associate professor of Medieval English literature in the English Department of Yarmouk University. He teaches several courses of English literature and criticism and supervises some master theses in literature. He has several publications in different academic journals, such as JJMLL, IJAES, 3L, Dirasat, Orbis Litterarum, Literature Compass, etc. He is currently working on several research projects associated with Middle English language and literature.
Volume 10 Committee
Editor: Matthew Firth (Flinders University)
Deputy Editor: Ashley Castelino (University of Oxford)
Reviews Co-Editors: Amanda Burrows (University of Saskatchewan), Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Independent Scholar)
Secretary & Treasurer: Michele Seah (Newcastle University)
Social Media Manager: Lindsay Church (Dalhousie University, Halifax)
Web Editor: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Jenny Davis Barnett (University of Queensland), James Cogbill (University of Oxford), Lorenzo Curatella (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg & Sapienza Università di Roma), Meredith Cutrer (University of Oxford), Gwendolyne Knight (Stockholm University), Dain Swenson (Lund University), David White (Macquarie University), Malek J. Zuraikat (Yarmouk University).
Volume 9 Committee
Editor: Matthew Firth (Flinders University)
Deputy Editors: Jenny Davis Barnett (University of Queensland), Zoë Enstone (York St John University)
Reviews Co-Editors: Amanda Burrows (University of Saskatchewan), Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Independent Scholar)
Secretary: David White (Macquarie University)
Social Media Manager: Lindsay Church (Dalhousie University, Halifax)
Web Editor & Treasurer: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Frederic Aparisi (Universitat de Lleida), James Cogbill (University of Oxford), Meredith Cutrer (University of Oxford), Michael Hammett (Columbia University), Patrick Huang (Western University, London, Ontario), Gwendolyne Knight (Stockholm University & Rikkyo University), Cassandra Schilling (Flinders University), Filip Schneider (University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava), Victoria Shirley (Cardiff University), Dain Swenson (Lund University).
Volume 8 Committee
Editor: Gwendolyne Knight (Stockholm University)
Deputy Editor: Matthew Cleary (University of Edinburgh)
Reviews Editor: Patrick Huang (Western University, London, Ontario)
Secretary: David White (Macquarie University)
Social Media Manager: Dain Swenson (Independent Scholar)
Treasurer: James Youd (University of Western Australia)
Web Editor: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Frederic Aparisi (Universitat de Lleida), Jenny Davis Barnett (University of Queensland), Meredith Cutrer (University of Oxford), Matthew Firth (Flinders University), Michael Hammett (Columbia University), Cassandra Schilling (Flinders University), Victoria Shirley (Cardiff University).
Volume 7 Committee
Editor: Gwendolyne Knight (Stockholm University)
Deputy Editors: Matthew Cleary (University of Edinburgh), Victoria Shirley (Cardiff University)
Reviews Editor: Minjie Su (University of Oxford)
Deputy Reviews Editor: Patrick Huang (Western University, London, Ontario)
Fundraising Officer: Bob van Strijen (Independant Scholar)
Secretary: David White (Macquarie University)
Social Media Manager: Dain Swenson (Independant Scholar)
Treasurer: James Youd (University of Western Australia)
Web Editor: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Frederic Aparisi (Universitat de Lleida), Jenny Davis Barnett (University of Queensland), Meredith Cutrer (Oxford University), Veronica De Duonni (Università di Salerno), Matthew Firth (Flinders University), Michael Hammett (Columbia University), Cassandra Schilling (Flinders University).
Volume 6 Committee
Editor: Christina Cleary (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
Reviews Editor: Minjie Su (University of Oxford)
Deputy Reviews Editor: Kirsty Bolton (University of Southampton)
Fundraising Officer: Cheryl Major (University of Western Australia)
Secretary: Tess Watterson (Macquarie University)
Social Media Manager: Matthew Firth (Flinders University)
Treasurer: James Youd (University of Western Australia)
Web Editor: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Melanie Cooper (University of Adelaide), Veronica De Duonni (Università di Salerno), Julia Pelosi-Thorpe (University of Melbourne), Cassandra Schilling (Flinders University).
Volume 5 Committee
Editor: Stephanie Hathaway (University of Oxford)
Deputy Editors: Mark Neuendorf (University of Adelaide), Emma Knowles (University of Cambridge)
Reviews Editor: Stephanie Thomson (University of Adelaide)
Fundraising Officer: Cheryl Major (University of Western Australia)
Secretary: Tess Watterson (Macquarie University), Jessica Donovan (University of Western Australia)
Social Media Manager: Kirsty Bolton (University of Southampton)
Treasurer: James Youd (University of Western Australia)
Web Editor: Erica Steiner (University of Sydney)
General Committee Members: Vanessa Wright (University of Leeds), Melanie Cooper (University of Adelaide).
Volume 4 Committee
Editor: Vanessa Wright (University of Leeds)
Deputy Editor: Tara Auty (University of Western Australia)
Reviews Editor: Stephanie Hathaway (University of Oxford)
Deputy Reviews Editor: Stephanie Thomson (University of Adelaide)
Fundraising Officer: Imogen Forbes-Macphail (University of California, Berkeley)
Promotions Officer: Melanie Cooper (University of Adelaide)
Secretary & Treasurer: Tara Auty (University of Western Australia)
Social Media Manager: Skye Walker (University of York)
Volume 3 Committee
Editor: Marcus Harmes (University of Southern Queensland)
Deputy Editor: Vanessa Wright (University of Leeds)
Reviews Editor: Stephanie Hathaway (University of Oxford)
Secretary & Treasurer: Tara Auty (University of Western Australia)
Social Media Manager: Michael Ovens (University of Western Australia)
Volume 2 Committee
Editor: Michael Ovens
Co-Editor: Imogen Forbes-Macphail
Deputy Editor: Sarah Russell
Reviews Editor: Amy Barnes
Co-Secretaries: Bríd Phillips, Kelly Midgley
Social Media & Web Editor: Darren Smith
Co-Treasurers: Jane Héloïse-Nancarrow, Makoto Takao Harris, Kelly Midgley
Volume 1 Founding Committee
Editor: Imogen Forbes-Macphail
Deputy Editor: Makoto Harris Takao
Reviews Editor: Michael Ovens
Secretary: Bríd Phillips
Co-Treasurers: Jane-Héloïse Nancarrow, Amy Hilhorst
Web Editor: Alana Bennett
Web Co-Editor: Darren Smith
General Committee Member: Sarah Russell