DR FRAN ALLFREY
Researcher, teacher, maker
Based in Reading, Avebury, and York, UK
Here I’ve collected some of the things I most enjoy making and learning, and helping other people to make and learn. For everything, see my cv.
fran dot allfrey at york dot ac dot uk
Researcher, teacher, maker
Based in Reading, Avebury, and York, UK
Here I’ve collected some of the things I most enjoy making and learning, and helping other people to make and learn. For everything, see my cv.
fran dot allfrey at york dot ac dot uk
RESEARCHING
SUTTON HOO IN PUBLIC
Making the early Middle Ages in newspapers, television, museums, and contemporary arts
I completed a PhD in May 2020, and I am currently turning my thesis into a book.
ETHNONATIONALISM AND MEDIEVALISM Reading affective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’ today with the discovery of Sutton Hoo postmedieval, 2021 [link].
OLD ENGLISH POETRY AND SUTTON HOO ON DISPLAY Creating ‘the Anglo-Saxons’ in museums
In Old English Medievalism, 2022 [link].
EARLY MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AS HERITAGE
A Sutton Hoo case study Open Library of the Humanities, 2023 [link].
FORGING THE MEDIEVAL ON WIKIPEDIA Collaborative critical analysis of how the Middle Ages is represented on the free encyclopedia
With Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell, postmedieval, 2024 [link].
AFTERLIVES OF THE SEAFARER Tracing twentieth- and twenty-first century lives of the tenth-century ‘Seafarer’ poem
Forthcoming.
SUTTON HOO IN PUBLIC
Making the early Middle Ages in newspapers, television, museums, and contemporary arts
I completed a PhD in May 2020, and I am currently turning my thesis into a book.
ETHNONATIONALISM AND MEDIEVALISM Reading affective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’ today with the discovery of Sutton Hoo postmedieval, 2021 [link].
OLD ENGLISH POETRY AND SUTTON HOO ON DISPLAY Creating ‘the Anglo-Saxons’ in museums
In Old English Medievalism, 2022 [link].
EARLY MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AS HERITAGE
A Sutton Hoo case study Open Library of the Humanities, 2023 [link].
FORGING THE MEDIEVAL ON WIKIPEDIA Collaborative critical analysis of how the Middle Ages is represented on the free encyclopedia
With Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell, postmedieval, 2024 [link].
AFTERLIVES OF THE SEAFARER Tracing twentieth- and twenty-first century lives of the tenth-century ‘Seafarer’ poem
Forthcoming.
TEACHING
UNIVERSITY COURSES
University of Reading
Spring 2022 - Medieval Otherworlds, Introduction to Old English Literature, Renaissance Texts and Cultures (Undergraduate).
King’s College London
2017-2021 - Medieval Literary Culture (Undergraduate).
Spring 2021 - The Contemporary Medieval (Postgraduate).
Queen Mary University London
2019 - Literatures in Time (Undergraduate).
SKILLS TRAINING
The Courtauld
Designing and delivering digital skills training for over 200 volunteers digitising 1.5 million photographs of art and architecture.
WIKIPEDIA WORKSHOPS
Editing workshops for researchers and institutions.
I’m a trained Wikimedia UK facilitator, and I co-organise the #MedievalWiki project to improve Wikipedia coverage of women and people of colour related to medieval studies [link].
UNIVERSITY COURSES
University of Reading
Spring 2022 - Medieval Otherworlds, Introduction to Old English Literature, Renaissance Texts and Cultures (Undergraduate).
King’s College London
2017-2021 - Medieval Literary Culture (Undergraduate).
Spring 2021 - The Contemporary Medieval (Postgraduate).
Queen Mary University London
2019 - Literatures in Time (Undergraduate).
SKILLS TRAINING
The Courtauld
Designing and delivering digital skills training for over 200 volunteers digitising 1.5 million photographs of art and architecture.
WIKIPEDIA WORKSHOPS
Editing workshops for researchers and institutions.
I’m a trained Wikimedia UK facilitator, and I co-organise the #MedievalWiki project to improve Wikipedia coverage of women and people of colour related to medieval studies [link].
MAKING
ARTIST BOOKS
Collaborative translations
The Dream of the Rood.
The House of Fame.
A Gift for the Illuminated Sphere
With collaborator Francesca Brooks. Found texts and images, handmade book, edition of five.
Mechanics of Memory
Photographs and found text, edition of three.
FILM
True Songs
Official Selection for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2016).
Into the Mystic (dir. Dominé-Whalley and Walker)
Research and script development, production assistant (2020-ongoing).
AUDIO / VISUAL PRODUCTION
The Courtauld
Digital Media blog audio (2020-2021)
Strandlines
Managing editor of a digitial project committed to sharing and archiving lives on the Strand, London (2019-2021).
Footnotes podcast
Interviews with humanities researchers (2015-2017)
ARTIST BOOKS
Collaborative translations
The Dream of the Rood.
The House of Fame.
A Gift for the Illuminated Sphere
With collaborator Francesca Brooks. Found texts and images, handmade book, edition of five.
Mechanics of Memory
Photographs and found text, edition of three.
FILM
True Songs
Official Selection for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2016).
Into the Mystic (dir. Dominé-Whalley and Walker)
Research and script development, production assistant (2020-ongoing).
AUDIO / VISUAL PRODUCTION
The Courtauld
Digital Media blog audio (2020-2021)
Strandlines
Managing editor of a digitial project committed to sharing and archiving lives on the Strand, London (2019-2021).
Footnotes podcast
Interviews with humanities researchers (2015-2017)