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Emily Kesling is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in medieval literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, affiliated with the Research Group Literature & Religion. Her expertise centers on early medieval English literature, Old English manuscripts, and intersections between medical practices and literary culture. She holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Oslo and has held research positions across multiple institutions.
Her research investigates palaeography, scribal culture, and the materiality of medieval texts, with particular attention to women’s writing and monastic contexts. She has published extensively on topics including Anglo-Saxon medical texts, manuscript production, and liturgical practices. Recent work examines tenth-century Winchester scribal networks and the transmission of Christ’s Letter to Abgar in Insular contexts.
Publications include the monograph Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture (2020) and peer-reviewed articles in Anglo-Saxon England, Early Medieval Europe, and Peritia. She actively engages in scholarly review activities, contributing to The Medieval Review and Modern Philology.
Kesling’s research is supported by grants from the Research Council of Norway (Project 262994). Her work bridges literary analysis with historical methodologies, offering innovative perspectives on how medieval medical knowledge was encoded, transmitted, and performed through literary forms.
