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Dr. Catherine Batt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. She previously taught at Durham University, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Birkbeck College (University of London), and served as a visiting associate professor at Fordham University (2007-2008).
Her educational background includes:
- PhD in 'English Literary Responses to French Arthurian Cyclic Romance' from the University of Liverpool
- MA in Medieval Literature from the University of Liverpool
- BA (First Class Honours) in English Literature from Bedford College, University of London
Dr. Batt's research centers on medieval literary cultures with emphases on translation theory, gender studies, and devotional practices. She examines intersections of medical and spiritual metaphors in texts like Henry, Duke of Lancaster's Le Livre de seyntz medicines and the Miroir pur bien vivre, while challenging modern assumptions about medieval originality. Her work spans Arthurian literature, hagiography, Anglo-Norman studies, and material culture, revealing how medieval texts inform contemporary understandings of humanity.
No scientific awards are documented in the provided information.
She actively supervises PhD candidates across medieval studies, with current projects exploring wounded knights in chivalric romance, episcopal voices in devotional texts, jousting contexts, anchorite archaeology, and cross-dressing in medieval literature. Recent graduates have completed dissertations on national identity in historical literature, visionary devotional reception, Old English slavery lexicons, and Spanish chivalric translation.
Dr. Batt chairs the editorial board of Leeds Studies in English, serves as General Editor for The Medieval Translator Series, and participates in the Textual Histories Research Group and IMS Steering Committee.
