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Prof Megan Leitch

@meganleitch.bsky.social
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Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at University of Groningen, past President of IAS-BB & co-editor of Arthurian Lit. Research: treason, sleep, dwarves, & the Medieval Middlebrow. Canadian expat, Welsh exile, aspiring European. She/her.

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some of my favourite quiet coastal spots- right in the heart of Vancouver!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Vancouver's sailors: keeping it classical. Or maybe they know their Chaucer?
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For the next couple of months, at Green College at the University of British Columbia, I get to think, write, and exchange ideas on the edge of Vancouver, in a forest by the sea. With many thanks to Green College for hosting me and Siân Echard for nominating me for the visiting fellowship!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Come be my colleague! Groningen is hiring in contemporary English literature and creative writing. The post has an 18-month probation period with an eye to a permanent position: tinyurl.com/bdeuphdz
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Assistant Professor in Modern English Literature and Culture at University of Groningen
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in Modern English Literature and Culture is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Had a lovely time at my inaugural lecture and party on Friday, silly hats and centuries-old rituals and all. Individual thank-yous to follow, but I'm grateful for all the cards, well-wishes, flowers and other gifts, and especially for the friends and colleagues near and far who offered them!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A reminder that applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year to everyone except the guy who just got given a knighthood for having axed Medieval English at Leicester...!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Out of office auto-reply is on and the tree is up. Here's to the holidays!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Spotted in front of Groningen's Academy Building: a horse-drawn carriage attended by two footmen. I have clearly stepped into a neo-gothic alternate reality...
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Dutch Duolingo is having a Star Wars moment, and I am here for it
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm delighted that Dr Roberta Magnani (Swansea) will be giving our final medieval guest lecture of the year here in Groningen on Monday 26 May. Details as follows, and online attendees very welcome!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Just a quick reminder of Prof Corinne Saunders' lecture here in Groningen later today - link for online attendees below!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST). “Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing” Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
After a few months of not being allowed to touch a computer/phone due to tendonitis in my wrists, it's a delight to share photos of this week's trip to Bern to give a guest lecture & Amiens for a conference on emotions & space in romance. Five stars for the company & cathedral spires in both cities!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Happy to be on my way to Amsterdam today to give a guest lecture and meet new colleagues! aihr.uva.nl/content/even...
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The Medieval Middlebrow: Rewriting Romance and Reshaping the Literary Marketplace - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
English Literature and Culture guest lecture on 03 October from 17:00—18:30 in PCH 1.05. The talk will be given by Professor Megan Leitch of the University of Groningen.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Dutch Duolingo is feeling Dantean today
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
After a fantastic conference in Dusseldorf on multilingual medieval text traditions, I'm happy to be heading *home* to Groningen
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Interested in sleep and insomnia and how they relate to wellbeing, now and in the past? Check out this podcast in which Dr Brigitte Steger and I compare the perspectives of medieval Japan and England! podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sleep-insomn...
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Sleep, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives
Abstracts: Brigitte Steger (Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge): "At night I lie in bed but cannot sleep" - Insomnia and loneliness in early Japanese literature
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
My new office! And my current mood after unpacking that lot...
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
First day in the new job! Groningen looking its delightful best
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Adventures in trying to leave Britain: council system requires new address, has drop-down menu of countries from which I can select THE NETHERLANDS, but still tells me this isn't a valid address b/c it doesn't have a UK postcode. Sigh. All places are belong to the UK, it seems!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
I've begun packing up my office, and have discovered that I've wildly underestimated how many boxes I need for my books... #academiaproblems
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
The view from my Edinburgh accommodation is not so bad... Next up: a rendezvous with the Auchinleck Manuscript!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Today, a chimney sweep's response to me decamping to the Netherlands for my dream job: "I would never've guessed that you was a professor. You're far too young and pretty to be a professor." Sigh. I fear my attempts to show him that this is not a compliment were unsuccessful!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Delighted to announce that this year's Arthurian Literature Derek Brewer Prize winning essay is Ashley Walchester's perceptive ‘A Variant Reading in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1529 Edition of Le Morte Darthur: The Question of Bors’ Threnody' Many congratulations Ashley!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Happy World Sleep Day! In John Trevisa's words, 'slepe is kinde and temperat, it doþ to þe body ful mony profitis and fele.'
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
For anyone who missed the event last week and fancies learning more about medieval sleep and wellbeing - in both Europe and Japan - my talk alongside Dr Brigitte Steger is now available on the TORCH Oxford website! torch.ox.ac.uk/video-record...
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Glad to be in Oxford for the week, consulting manuscripts for my Leverhulme-funded Medieval Middlebrow project!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
A week today I'm speaking @TORCHOxford on research related to my The Medieval Future of Sleep project: medieval sleep strategies, emotions, and wellbeing. All welcome! Thursday 29 Feb at 5.15 pm UK time, both in person and online: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/sleep-...
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Job Klaxon! Cardiff University is hiring for 6 permanent posts: 4 in Eng Lit and 2 in Creative Writing. This includes a permanent lecturer in MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, to replace me when I move to the Netherlands. Please share widely! krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Lectureships in English Literature and Creative Wr - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Lectureships in English Literature and Creative Writing – Teaching and ResearchThe School of English, Communic
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
It's that time of year again - submissions are now warmly invited for Arthurian Literature's Derek Brewer ECR essay prize! Deadline 31 March. Details through link: boydellandbrewer.com/arthurian-li...
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Arthurian Literature - Boydell and Brewer - Academic Publisher
Arthurian Literature is a series from Boydell and Brewer, devoted to the scholarly and critical study of all aspects of the legend in Europe.
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Cheers to Duolingo for teaching me how to pay someone a very high compliment in Dutch
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
It's that time of year again
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
It's good to see that Duolingo's Dutch phrases are as eminently practical for use IRL as its Welsh ones...
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Some news I've been looking forward to sharing: I'm delighted that from August I will be the Professor and Chair of Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. I'm very much looking forward to calling the Netherlands home!
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
This afternoon I've written & submitted abstracts for next year's medieval romance conference in Strasbourg and also the Arthurian congress in Aix-en-Provence. My productivity clearly hits an all-time high when the motivation is: trips to France!
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