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Professor Rachel Burns is an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Medieval English Literature at Jesus College, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from University College London and teaches Old and Middle English literature, manuscript studies, and twentieth-century medievalism. Her research focuses on Old English poetics, material texts, patristic theology, and digitization of medieval manuscripts.
Education: BA English (St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 2008–2011), MSt in 650–1550 Literature (Oxford English Faculty, 2013–2014), PhD (UCL, 2018).
Research interests include Old English verse layout, materialism in narrative, and the interplay between patristic and vernacular theologies. Her upcoming monographs explore Old English verse design and material theology. She co-edits Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre (2022) and contributes to leading journals like Review of English Studies and Anglia.
Her work bridges medieval and modern materialist thought, analyzing how medieval authors used texts and objects to construct identity. She collaborates on the CLASP Project, digitizing Old English verse manuscripts, and plans a 2025 conference on the Exeter Book.
Grants and projects include ERC-funded CLASP research (2018–2022). She advises on medieval studies pedagogy and edits sections of The Year’s Work in English Studies.
Labs/Teams: Active contributor to the CLASP Project (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry), co-hosting conferences and editing projects on medieval texts.
