Current affiliation

Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Utrecht, Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) [link]

Researchproject: ‘The exchange of learning in early medieval Bavaria’ within the international project ‘Cultural memory and the resources of the past, 400-1000 AD’, funded as a HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Joint Research Programme.

Research interests: Scholarship and education in the early Middle Ages; Medieval palaeography and codicology; Cultural and intellectual interplay between the British Isles and the European mainland; Celtic History; Liturgy and society.

Degrees

2010            PhD-degree Medieval History, University of Cambridge

                    PhD-thesis: The spread and reception of Hiberno-Latin scholarship on the Continent in the eighth and ninth centuries.

2006            MPhil-degree (distinguished performance) Medieval History, University of Cambridge

                   MPhil-thesis: The spread and reception of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis on the Continent before the tenth century

2003            MA-degree Celtic Studies from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (including a six-month stay at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2001)

2003            MA-degree (with honours) History from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, specialisation Medieval History

                    MA-thesis: ‘Huisque in calicem’ (Water in the chalice): Liturgy and society in the early medieval Irish Stowe Missal

Distinctions

present        Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge (under External Research Studentship). [link]

present      Honorary Scholar of the Cambridge European Trust (including Cambridge European Trust Book Prize for 2005-2008).

2007           Gaillard Lapsley Essay Prize (Trinity College, Cambridge) for the essay ‘Unity and diversity in the Carolingian reform efforts: a reassessment of the aims’.

2005         Blackwell-Early Medieval Europe Essay Prize for volume 13, for the article ‘The early Irish Stowe Missal’s destination and function’.

Teaching and research experience

2009-2010    Teacher of Latin at Haarlemmermeerlyceum, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. [link]

2009            Teacher of Latin and Greek at Alkwin Kollege, Uithoorn, the Netherlands (replacement part-time position for three months).

2007-2008    Supervisor undergraduate paper 4 (Part I) at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic ‘The Gaelic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth’, University of Cambridge. [link]

2007            Teaching assistant Codicology paper for MPhil course Medieval History, Department of History, University of Cambridge. [link]

-                  Teacher of Latin and Antique Culture at, the Netherlands (replacement part-time position for two months).

2005            Research assistant to Dr Bart Jaski on the project: ‘Immurgu: Insular Medieval Manuscripts Reproduction Guide University of Utrecht’ [link]

Grants awarded

2010            cooperated on successful application for HERA funding for project ‘Cultural memory and the resources of the past, 400-1000 AD’.

2005-2009    External Research Studentship, Trinity College, Cambridge (3,5 years)

2005-2008    Everhard Verheyden Dutch Prize, Trinity College, Cambridge (awarded on 3 occasions)

2005-2007    Grant Gaillard Lapsley Fund, Trinity College, Cambridge (applied for and awarded on 2 occasions)

2005            Stipend Stichting Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, The Hague

-                  Stipend Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam

Conference papers

2009            ‘Unity and uniformity in the Carolingian reform efforts’

                   Rosamond McKitterick Festschrift Conference, Cambridge, September 2009

-                  ‘The revival of learning in eighth-century Bavaria’

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2009

-                 ‘The Irish foundations and the Carolingian world’

Settimane LVII: ‘L'Irlanda e gli irlandesi nell'alto medioevo’, Spoleto, April 2009

2008            ‘The use of the Old Testament in the Irish canonical tradition’

Law Workshop, History Faculty, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, May 2008

-                  ‘The reception of Irish scholarship at ninth-century Saint Gall’

                    International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (MI), May 2008

2007            ‘Irish scholars and scholarship on the Continent in the later ninth century’

                   Texts & Identities Conference, Prague, November 2007

-                  ‘The composition and reception of the Liber ex lege Moysi’

                    Irish Conference of Medievalists, Limerick, June 2007

-                  ‘The destination and function of the Liber ex lege Moysi’

                    Cambridge & Oxford Celtic Colloquium, Oxford, May 2007

2006            ‘Hiberno-Latin scholarship in the Bodenseeraum’

                    Cambridge & Heidelberg Seminar, Cambridge, December 2006

-                  ‘Hiberno-Latin scholarship in the Bodenseeraum: The case of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis’

                   Texts & Identities Conference, Wassenaar (the Netherlands), November 2006

-                  ‘Spreading the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis over Europe’

                    Texts & Identities Conference, Vienna, January 2006

2004            ‘The spread of Hiberno-Latin scholarship over the European Continent: a research proposal’

                    Texts & Identities Conference, Cambridge, December 2004

Languages

Fluent: Dutch, English

Good: German, French

Reading: Latin, Old-Irish, Italian

Elementary knowledge: Ancient Greek, Modern-Irish, Middle-Welsh