Professor Niebrzydowski is a professor of Medieval  Literature. She has been Director of the Graduate School for the College of Arts and Humanities during her career at Bangor University. Sue Niebrzydowski is a director of The Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book at Bangor.

Tel: 01248 382111

Email: s.niebrzydowski@bangor.ac.uk

• BA: English Language and Literature
  School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham,
• MA: Medieval Studies
  University of London,
• PhD: ‘‘Verry Matrymony’’: The Representation of Mary and Her Mother, St. Anne, as wives in medieval English Literature, 1200-1540’
  University of Warwick,
• Arall: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Teaching)
  University of Warwick,

I teach a range of undergraduate modules including the first year 'Heroes and Villains: An Introduction to Medieval Literature' and 'The Literature of Laughter', the second year 'Beowulf to Malory' and the third year specialist modules: 'Medieval Women's Writing' and 'Chaucer: Comedy, Calamity and Creativity.' I also supervise BA dissertations.

At Masters level I teach the skills of palaeography and codicology, and a specialist module in medieval and early modern women's devotional writing, as well as supervise masters' dissertations.

PhD supervision

Completed:

Majed Kraishan, 'The (Hetero)erotic in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde' (2014)

Tracy Egbert, 'Self through Remembrance Identity Construction and Memory in the Novels of Octavia E. Butler' (2017)

Alaa Al-Halbosy, 'Folklore as a Means to Sustain African-American Identity: A Study of Selected Novels by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker' (2020)

In progress:

Stevie Fox, 'Dragons in Medieval and Early Modern Literature'

Rhianydd Hallas, 'Adam Easton, John Jenstein, and the Feast of the Visitation'

Vicki Kay, 'Mercantile Language in Medieval and Early Modern Women's Writing'

Diane Kaiser, 'Medieval and Early Modern Women's Engagement with Devotional Art'

2020

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2011

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2020

• Masters by Research

  Women, Empowerment and the Natural World in Medieval Literature 1200-1500

  29 Meh 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Arholiad (Arholwr)
• Palgrave Macmillan (Cyhoeddwr)

  Women and Medieval Drama: Selected Sisters and Worshipful Wives

  5 Chwef 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)

2018

• BBC Radio Wales: Interview about Bangor University's Art Collection with Elen Ifan

  The Arts Show, Radio Wales at 6.30pm on Friday evenings.

  9 Tach 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
• 'Poems and Pots'

  Bangor University art and ceramic collections tour accompanied by poetry

  6 Tach 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr)
• Cynhadledd NAASWCH Prifysgol Bangor 2018

  Paper, 'The Mostyn Psalter-Hours: comments on the research potential of Welsh country house libraries' as part of the panel: Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE): Researching the history, culture and landscapes of Wales through the prisms of estates: exploring the possibilities.

  25 Gorff 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
• The Suffrage Symposium

  26 Mai 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
• The Suffrage Symposium

  The Nun and the Suffragette: Hrotswitha of Gandersheim and Christopher St John

  26 Mai 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
• Reading Margery Kempe in the 21st Century

  ‘Wolcomyd and mech made of in dyvers placys’: The shared piety of the citizens of York and Margery Kempe

  6 Ebr 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
• ‘In the Palm of Her Hand: The Medieval Reader of Bangor MSS/ 3, a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours’

  Paper

  4 Ebr 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Cyfrannwr)
• A Level study day

  Study day with YR 2 A-level students and staff exploring Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.

  18 Ion 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Ymgysylltu ag ysgolion (Cyfrannwr)

2017

• ‘“A group of women walked into a tavern”: Medieval Women’s Wit’

  Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Women's Voices

  11 Tach 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Prif siaradwr)
• AHRC Leadership Fellows Conference

  AHRC Leadership Fellows Conference

  6 Tach 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• Conwy Festival

  Talk, 'Mother Knows Best: Medieval Women's Literature'

  29 Hyd 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
• Medieval Women's Wit

  6x6 mini lectures

  9 Medi 2017

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/latest/bangor-university-at-festival-no-6-33169
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)
• ‘Farts, Tarts and Bodily Parts: Medieval Women’s Wit’

  Plenary Talk

  23 Meh 2017 – 25 Meh 2017

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/default/files/programme-for-bergen.pdf
  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• ‘Consolation in women’s words: The Case of Margery Kempe’s Book’

  Invited Talk

  28 Ebr 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• Member of AHRC Strategic Review College

  1 Ion 2017 – 30 Rhag 2020

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod)

2016

• The Shankland Lectures

  Series of public lectures on all aspects of book history.

  12 Tach 2016 →

  Cysylltau:

  • http://colclough.bangor.ac.uk/shankland-lectures.php.en
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Trefnydd)
• Chaucer ‘to Walys fledde’ ; Troelus a Chresyd: ‘Putting old wine into new bottles’

  Two blog posts for the Global Chaucers website

  Tach 2016 – Ebr 2017

  Cysylltau:

  • https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/2016/11/
  • https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/2017/04/
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
• Preserving her Mother’s Words: Matilda Becket’s Prayer

  26 Gorff 2016 – 29 Gorff 2016

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.surrey.ac.uk/events/20160726-gender-and-genre-workshop
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• New Chaucer Society

  ‘Medieval Women and Their Books of Hours’

  11 Gorff 2016

  Cysylltau:

  • http://newchaucersociety.org/pages/entry-sub/schedule-11-july
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
• Leeds International Medieval Congress

  ‘Mete for owyr Lady’: Feeding the Virgin Mary’

  Gorff 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)
• Celebrating 'Lady Day' with Eleanor Percy's Marian Devotion

  Blog post for the Leverhulme Network Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

  30 Ebr 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
• BBC Radio 3: Introductions to a series of five, modern morality plays.

  Introductions to a series of five, modern morality plays commissioned by BBC Radio 3.

  15 Chwef 2016 – 19 Chwef 2016

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072mnrg
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyflwynydd)
• IMEMS Colloquium

  Colloquium of invited speakers examining sacred gardens of the Middle Ages.

  18 Ion 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)

2015

• In the Palm of Her Hand : The Medieval Reader of Bangor MSS/ 3, a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours

  The Shankland Lectures

  14 Tach 2015

  Cysylltau:

  • http://colclough.bangor.ac.uk/shankland-lectures.php.en
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
• Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

  Leverhulme Network

  20 Gorff 2015 – 24 Gorff 2015

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/default/files/programme-for-chawton-conference.pdf
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• National Theatre, London, Lecture:‘Everyman and Impending Death’

  Public lecture given as part of the ‘In Context: Everyman and Medieval Theatre’ at the Clore Learning Centre, National Theatre, London, to accompany the production of Everyman at the National Theatre.

  11 Mai 2015

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
• It may be a medieval morality play about death - but Everyman works

  Article in The Conversation

  1 Mai 2015

  Cysylltau:

  • https://theconversation.com/it-may-be-a-medieval-morality-play-about-death-but-everyman-works-40988
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
• ‘Ye know eek that in forme of speche is change withinne a thousand yeer’: Chaucer, Henryson and the Welsh Troelus a Chresyd’

  11 Ebr 2015

  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• Gender and Medieval Studies

  Annual Gender and Medieval Studies Research Group Conference

  7 Ion 2015 – 9 Ion 2015

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/events/gender-dirt-and-taboo-21040
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)

2014

• 'Past Lives, Present Consolation: Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Literary Responses to Death,’

  Talk given at the invitation of the The Sheffield Death Group (Sheffield University)

  27 Tach 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)
• Member of AHRC Peer Review College

  1 Meh 2014 – 31 Rhag 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Aelodaeth o banel neu bwyllgor adolygu cymheiriaid (Aelod)
• Digitisation of the Hengwrt copy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

  25 Ebr 2014

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-27155607
  • https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/original-chaucer-masterpiece-goes-show-7030375
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
• ‘‘Best sentence and moost solaas’: The Hengwrt copy of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.’

  Public lecture at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

  23 Ebr 2014

  Cysylltau:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOgSWggtCKg
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Darlith/trafodaeth/seminar gyhoeddus (Siaradwr)
• Exhibition: To Tell a Story: Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

  Curator of the Chaucer exhibition at the National National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

  3 Maw 2014 – 27 Meh 2014

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/llyfrgen
  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Gŵyl/Arddangosfa (Siaradwr)

2013

• Medieval English Theatre conference

  23 Maw 2013

  Cysylltau:

  • http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/meth/meet_2013/information_2013.html
  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)

2012

• Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain

  '"For the interest and amusement of the compiler": Revisiting the Book of Robert Reynes of Acle'

  21 Meh 2012 – 23 Meh 2012

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)

2011

• ‘Past Words, Present Consolation’

  Presentation of Beacon Project

  26 Ion 2011

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Cyfrannwr)

2009

• ‘Magic Touch: Tactile Experience in the Medieval Past’

  AHRC Network: The Senses in the Middle Ages, Durham University

  10 Hyd 2009

  Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr gwadd)

2008

• English (Cyfnodolyn)

  Book Reviews Editor

  2008 – 2015

  Cysylltau:

  • https://academic.oup.com/english
  Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)

• Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval English Canon

  01/04/2015 – 30/11/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

• From Glass Case to Cyber-Space: Chaucerian Manuscripts Across Time

  01/01/2014 – 30/09/2015 (Wedi gorffen)