Dr Roberta Magnani

• Reading Heresy in Women's Visionary Texts in the Later Middle Ages (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Laura Kalas

• Daughters of the Water (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Alan Bilton

• "I am not what I am”: Transness in English Literary Discourse, 1350-1650 (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Sally Barnden

• 'Female-coded Spirituality in the Writings of Chaucer' (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Laura Kalas

• Supernatural Abductions in Medieval Literature (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Laura Kalas

• Floral Utopias and Otherworlds: Representations of the Enclosed Garden in Chaucer and his Contemporaries (cyfredol)

  PhD

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Alison Williams

• Women, Empowerment and the Natural World in Medieval Literature 1200-1500. (dyfarnwyd 2023)

  MA

  Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Eoin Price

• EN-120 English Essentials

  This is a skills-based module which will equip students with the technical and critical expertise that is necessary for their academic journey in English Literature and Creative Writing. It is designed to support the transition from post-16 study to undergraduate study and to show students *how* to become successful scholars of English. How should we read texts? How do we write essays? Focusing on an exciting anthology of texts selected by the English academics at Swansea, this team-taught module uncovers the power of written language. We will explore how writers inspire and challenge their readers, how to think critically, how to close-read, how to construct powerful arguments and how to produce written work that is rigorous, academic and convincing. This module empowers students to think, write, and persuade.

• EN-237 Exploring the Bloody Chamber: Medieval to Postmodern

  This module will analyse narratives of female enclosure and gender conflict in a selection of texts from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Our specific focus is the story of the serial wife-killer Bluebeard: we will begin by examining variants of this fairy-tale narrative before both tracing it back to its mediaeval antecedents and following its continuing presence as an influence on more contemporary texts. In the process, we will discuss theories of gender, race and class in order to account for the persistent presence of this story in Western culture.

• EN-266 Medieval Encounters

  Many of the elements of our culture were first imagined or developed in the medieval period, but have continued to speak to post-medieval readers. This module will introduce students to the literature of the medieval period, with a particular emphasis on contacts or encounters between medieval texts and more modern cultures via literary translations and transformations. These translations will include both medieval responses to earlier classical and biblical traditions, and modern re-imaginings of medieval texts and ideas (including the notion of 'medievalism'). A major theme of the course will be the cultural continuities and discontinuities between medieval literature and later texts, and the ways in which medieval narratives and images were adapted to meet the needs of other cultural circumstances. Students will develop an awareness of key aspects of medieval literary culture including ideas of authorship and authority, religious traditions, and romance codes. Students will also gain an understanding of the functions of translation and re-appropriation in literary and cultural production. Although all texts will be available in modern English and fully-glossed versions, the module will equip students with the necessary linguistic skills to read and analyse Middle English texts.

• EN-M80 Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

  This module is designed to introduce you to key practical and conceptual tools necessary for scholarship at Master¿s level and beyond. The aim is for you to gain the competencies and confidence to complete and enjoy the degree. In a seminar and occasional workshop format, you will practise a range of core professional research skills. You will be encouraged to reflect on your own learning and academic development to become a more independent and self-directed lifelong learner. You will produce a Portfolio of assessed work. These activities will support your work in other MA modules, particularly EN-M41 Research Practice and your EN-M31 Dissertation, while also equipping you with a set of transferable skills that are highly valued by many employers.

• HIMD00 Medieval Studies Dissertation

  A dissertation of 15,000 - 20,000 words written on a topic decided by the student in consultation with the dissertation supervisor. This represents Part Two of the MA programme in Medieval Studies.

• HIMM00 Reading Medieval Manuscripts

  Medieval manuscript sources are crucial to our understanding of the Middle Ages. Research across the disciplines of medieval studies is grounded in the study and use of medieval books and documentary sources. This module aims to give students the skills, knowledge and confidence to engage with original manuscript sources of various types, from early Anglo-Saxon Gospel books to medieval chronicles, from illustrated books of hours to critical legal documents. Students will engage with these sources via digital and printed images and full-scale printed facsimiles, learning to recognise and transcribe medieval hands from all periods. Students will be given the chance to read original manuscripts during visits to the West Glamorgan Archive Service (Swansea) and the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth). This module assumes no prior knowledge of medieval manuscripts, nor any prior knowledge of the medieval languages featured in the manuscript samples, including Latin, Old English and Middle English.

Mae Dr Magnani wedi rhannu ei hymchwil ar rywedd canoloesol, yn enwedig menywod cwiar, â’r cyhoedd yn gyffredinol. Mae wedi ysgrifennu am drais yn erbyn menywod yn ogystal ag am darddiad clasurol a chanoloesol Wonder Woman, ymgnawdoliad cyfoes o fenyweidd-dra dramgwyddus yr Amasoniaid.