Dr Elizabeth Elliott

Biography

Elizabeth Elliott holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2011-2014), and took up her appointment at Aberdeen in 2013. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

External Memberships

Committee member of the Association for Scottish Literature and Scottish Text Society. Member of the Centre for Early Modern Studies 

Research Overview

I specialise in late medieval and early modern literature, with interests in memory, the history of emotions and sexuality, queer theory, medievalism, and Scottish literature. My ongoing interests in life-writing and literary reception are reflected in my book Remembering Boethius: Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late-Medieval French and English Literatures, which explores the role of the Consolation of Philosophy in mediating personal experiences of exile and imprisonment for medieval subjects. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on responses to Arthurian myth in Young Adult fiction, distributed cognition as a lens for reading late medieval Scottish literature, and the political function of emotion in Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid. I welcome enquiries from students working in related areas. 

Collaborations

Translator for the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival production of Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, directed by David Levin. 

Funding and Grants

2014: Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Workshops grant for the Evergreen: A New Season in the North

2011-2014: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, for work on the Bannatyne Manuscript and its cultural afterlife.