Elizabeth M. Tyler

Elizabeth M. Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Her research focuses on England's literary culture from the 9th to 12th centuries, examining its integral role in European literary development through Alfred the Great to Geoffrey of Monmouth. She co-leads the Danish National Research Foundation-funded Centre for Medieval Literature, based jointly at the Universities of Southern Denmark and York, fostering international collaboration across medieval studies.

Her scholarship explores multilingual (Latin, Old English, Anglo-Norman French) literary production with emphases on fictionality's political utility, female patronage networks, and cross-Channel cultural exchanges. Key publications include the monograph England in Europe: English Queens and the Politics of Fiction, c. 1000-c. 1150 (2017), examining how queens leveraged fictional narratives for political influence within European courts.

Recent work like her 2021 article on ninth-century historiography demonstrates consistent methodological innovation through entangled history approaches, revealing how linguistic choices in chronicles reflected power dynamics across medieval Europe's interconnected realms.

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Professor Tyler supervises PhD research on diverse early medieval topics including motherhood, sanctity, warfare ethics, and multilingual poetics. She directs major collaborative projects including the Centre for Medieval Literature and CARMEN network, securing funding from the Danish National Research Foundation and Worldwide Universities Network for cross-border medieval scholarship.

She co-founded the Centre for Medieval Literature which drives the field through its journal Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures and maintains active roles in CARMEN and Oxford University Press editorial boards, shaping global medieval studies infrastructure.