Biography
Gareth Lloyd Evans is the Rebecca Marsland Career Development Fellow in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, supported by the VH Galbraith Fund. Gareth teaches Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse languages and literatures for the college and also teaches Old Norse for Oxford’s English Faculty. Before coming to St Hilda's he was Teaching Fellow at Durham University where he taught Old Norse and Old English.
His primary field of research is Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and he has secondary research interests in Old and Middle English literature. He is particularly interested in questions of gender, sexuality, and emotion, and of identity more broadly. He is also interested in ideas of poetics and style. Gareth is author of Men and Masculinities in the Sagas of Icelanders (Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Masculinities in Old Norse Literature (D.S. Brewer, 2020).
Gareth’s current work examines the representation of emotion in Old Norse literature. He is working on a monograph entitled The Poetics of Emotion in Old Norse Saga Narrative (under contract with Boydell and Brewer) and is co-editing two collections of essays (Saga Emotions, under contract with Manchester University Press, and New Studies on Emotion in Old Norse Literature, under contract with Brepols).
His other current projects include a co-edited special issue of the journal English Studies on 'Deconstructing Masculinities in Old English Literature' that will appear in 2024, and an international conference - 'Affiliations: Towards a Theory of Cross-Temporal Comparison' - that will take place in Oxford in May 2024.
‘Gothes (Ostrogoths)’, in Richard Newhauser et al., The Chaucer Encyclopedia (Wiley, forthcoming).
‘Sigvatr’s Tears: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Skaldic Verse’, Leeds Medieval Studies 2 (2022), 75-99.
‘Female Masculinity and the Sagas of Icelanders’, in Gareth Lloyd Evans and Jessica Clare Hancock, Masculinities in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), 59-75.
(with Jessica Clare Hancock), ‘Afterword: The Ethics and Urgency of Studying Old Norse Masculinities’, in Gareth Lloyd Evans and Jessica Clare Hancock, Masculinities in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), 237-40.
(with Jessica Clare Hancock), ‘Introduction’, in Gareth Lloyd Evans and Jessica Clare Hancock, Masculinities in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), 1-18.
(ed., with Jessica Clare Hancock), Masculinities in Old Norse Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020).
Men and Masculinities in the Saga of Icelanders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
‘Michael Hirst’s Vikings and Old Norse Poetry’, in Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Translation, Reception, Interpretation, ed. Tom Birkett and Kirsty March-Lyons (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2017), 199-212.
‘An Unwitting Return to the Medieval: Postmodern Literary Experiments and Middle English Textuality’, Neophilologus 100.2 (2016), 335-344.
‘The Construction of Diplomacy in the Various Accounts of Sigvatr Þórðarson’s Bersǫglisvísur’, Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 38 (2014), 49-60.
Positions
- Career Development Fellow in English
Subjects
- English
