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Holly James-Maddocks is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Palaeography at the University of York's Department of English and Related Literature since 2018. She holds a PhD from York (2013) and has held prestigious postdoctoral fellowships at St Louis University (2015-2016), the Society for Renaissance Studies (2014-2015), and visiting research fellowships at Harvard and Yale libraries. Her research focuses on manuscript illumination, early print culture, and the intersections between visual and textual scholarship in late medieval England.
Key research topics include the professional networks of medieval illuminators, the material production of Chaucerian manuscripts, and the adaptation of manuscript craftsmanship in early printed books. She has curated extensive datasets on 3,000 illuminated English manuscripts (1380–1520) to explore socio-geographical dimensions of literary production. Recent work examines how manuscript illuminators operated within 15th-century book-trade systems.
Her Leverhulme-funded project 'The Illuminators of the Middle English Poetic Tradition' identified professional artists bridging vernacular and Latin manuscript traditions. Award-winning publications include collaborative catalogues and edited volumes on scribal cultures. Teaching spans medieval literature surveys and palaeography workshops at York, Birmingham, and St Louis universities.
Major grants include support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Paul Mellon Centre, and Leverhulme Trust. Professional activities include public lectures like 'Designing English: The Illuminator's Craft' (2018) and collaborative editorial projects in medieval studies.
