Simone Marshall
{{Short description|New Zealand scholar of medieval English literature}}
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Simone Celine Marshall is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in 15th century literature, in particular the afterlives of Chaucer's poems.
Academic career
Marshall has a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington, a BA with Honours and a Masters with Honours from the University of Waikato. She completed a PhD titled The female voice in the Assembly of ladies: a 'volume without contours' at the University of Sydney.{{Cite thesis |title= The female voice in the Assembly of ladies : a 'volume without contours'|last=Marshall|first=Simone Celine|date=2004|publisher=University of Sydney|type=PhD thesis|url=https://sydney.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/61USYD_INST/1c0ug48/alma991018732759705106}} Marshall then joined the faculty of the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Otago |first=Study Public Health at |date=2017-12-15 |title=University of Otago announces academic promotions |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/christchurch/departments/psychmed/news/university-of-otago-announces-academic-promotions |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Bioethics Centre |date=2021-11-22 |title=Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022 |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago-announces-professorial-promotions-for-2022 |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}
Marshall identified a previously unknown edition of Chaucer's works from 1807, and was invited to write a biography of Chaucer by Wiley/Blackwell. This discovery shows that Chaucer's life has been used to "uphold conservative white attitudes".{{Cite web |last=English and Linguistics |date=2022-09-02 |title=Professor Simone Celine Marshall |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/english-linguistics/staff/professor-simone-celine-marshall |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en}}
Marshall has received two Marsden grants. In 2009, the grant "A new paradigm of medieval literary anonymity" explored how she found that anonymity in medieval literature was a literary convention used by marginalised people, including women, to express dissent, rather than a reflection of a lack of authorial individualism.{{Cite web |title=Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/search-marsden-awards/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}} Marshall was an associate investigator on a 2011 Marsden grant "The machinery of transcendence: unattended moments in the Modernist tradition", which was led by Professor Chris Ackerley. This grant explored the relationship between medieval traditions and Modernist aesthetics.
In 2023, inspired by medieval works such as the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels that reflect where they are from, Marshall initiated a collaborative project with Otago Art Society to create a "Book of Otago". Community groups, schools, artists and writers were invited to submit a page for the book about what Otago means to them. The pages were exhibited at the Otago Art Society during November and December 2023, and will be bound into a published book.{{Cite news |last=Henderson |first=Simon |date=2023-09-07 |title=A history of Otago — page by page |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/book-of-otago-page-by-page |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Shef |date=2023-06-26 |title=Dunedin Book in the Making – Centre for the Book {{!}} He Rau Kupu, University of Otago, New Zealand |url=https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/cfb/dunedin-book-in-the-making/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |language=en-NZ}}
Marshall practices and teaches calligraphy, to assist students in understanding the skills required to produce the manuscripts they are studying. Marshall teaches courses on monsters and monstrosity in medieval literature, medieval misogyny and those who fought against it, and also teaches a class in a surveying course, covering the Hereford Mappa Mundi.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-06 |title=Teaching |url=https://simonecelinemarshall.com/teaching/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Simone Celine Marshall |language=en-GB}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q124159175}}
- {{Cite Q|Q123773134}}
- {{Cite Q|Q124159197}}
- {{Cite Q|Q124159253}}
- {{Cite Q|Q124159254}}
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:University of Waikato alumni
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago