Personal Info

E-mail: sian.gronlie(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274801

Academic Background:
BA in English (1995); MSt in English (1997); DPhil in Old Norse (2000); Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford (2001-04); joined St Anne’s in 2004.

Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate: I teach Old English and Middle English language and literature, as well as special options on Beowulf, Chaucer and Old Norse. I’m also responsible for teaching the special course on early English language and literature (Course II).

Graduate: I welcome applications from graduates interested in Old English and Old Norse literature; saints’ lives; conversion narratives; medieval historiography; and the reception of medieval literature.

Research Interests:
I’m currently writing a book on the relationship between the Icelandic family sagas and early saints’ lives; but I’m also interested in conversion narratives; early Christian poetry, Old Norse myth and legend; and medieval translation.

Selected Publications:
Siân Grønlie (ed. and trans.), Íslendingabók, Kristni saga: The Book of the Icelanders, The Story of the Conversion, Viking Society for Northern Research, Text Series vol. xviii, 2006
Siân Grønlie, ‘Preaching, Insult and Wordplay in the Old Icelandic kristniboðsþættir’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103 (2004), 456-74
Siân Grønlie, ‘Kristni saga and Medieval Conversion History’, Gripla XV (2005), 135-58
Siân Grønlie, ‘“Neither Male Nor Female”? Redeeming Women in the Icelandic Conversion Narratives’, Medium Ævum lxxv (2006), 293-318
Siân Grønlie, ‘Reading and Understanding: The miracles in Þorvalds þáttr ens víðförla’, in Ásdís Egilsdóttir (ed.), Hagiography and Fantasy, forthcoming with Brepols (2008)
Siân Grønlie, ‘Translating (and Translocating) Miracles: Gregory’s Dialogues and the Icelandic Sagas’, forthcoming in The Medieval Translator (2008)