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Kate Ash-Irisarri is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She earned her BA in English Language and Literature from St Hilda’s College, Oxford, followed by an MA and PhD in Medieval and Early Modern English Studies at Manchester, focusing on memory and Scottish national identity. Her academic career includes teaching roles at the University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, and Liverpool Hope University. She has been deeply involved in Academic Enrichment and Public Engagement, particularly through coordinating higher education awareness events and designing literary studies activities for young learners at Manchester (2011–2013). Her research centers on emotion, memory, and confession in late medieval Scottish literature, with a specific interest in the interplay between sanctity and literature and the cultural legacy of figures like St Margaret of Scotland.
She actively contributes to digital humanities and medieval studies through blog posts and collaborative projects, including participation in the Impossible Spaces blog tour and hosting Carnivalesque, a pre-modern history showcase. Her work bridges academic rigor with accessible public discourse, exemplified by her posts on medieval wall paintings, Renaissance art, and Scottish historical narratives. She has presented research at venues like the Lancashire Archives and the Queen Mary, University of London (2013). Notable travel experiences, including a trip to Florence in 2011 for a conference and a visit to Whalley Abbey, inform her interdisciplinary approach to history and literature.
