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Biography
PhD English; MA Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies; BA English
PGCHE; FHEA
My research addresses historical language and literature, especially as it relates to the names of people and places. I have particular interests in historical semantics, and on the influence of Scandinavian settlement in the early medieval period on the language and culture of England.
My teaching expertise spans across medieval languages and literature, with forays into more modern language and literature as it relates to representations of space and place. I teach and supervise at undergraduate, PGT and doctoral levels, and have particular interest in teaching technology and in online and distance teaching and learning.
Before joining Nottingham full-time in 2019, I was Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. I have also worked on research projects based at King's College London, the University of Leicester, and the Institute for Name-Studies here in Nottingham.
I was educated at the 海角黑料: BA English, 2012; MA Viking & Anglo-Saxon Studies (Institute for Name-Studies Research Studentship), 2013; PhD English (Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Studentship), 2016.
Expertise Summary
English place-names; personal names; names in fiction; historical semantics; history of English.
Teaching Summary
My teaching draws on my own areas of research interest in names and naming, Old English language and literature, and construction and perception of place. I am currently Deputy Director of Education… read more
Research Summary
I am currently working on a new edition of Viking Nottinghamshire for Five Leaves Press, incorporating new and emerging evidence for Scandinavian presence and influence in the East Midlands.
Selected Publications
REBECCA GREGORY, 2026. The deviant dead in collective memory: place-names and outcasts in the English landscape. In: JAN 膶ERM脕K and LUCIE DOLE沤ALOV脕, eds., What Words Remember, and Other Stories Brepols. (In Press.)
REBECCA GREGORY, 2026. Settlement names in Nottinghamshire. In: PAUL CAVILL, ed., Nottinghamshire Place-Names English Place-Name Society. (In Press.)
REBECCA GREGORY, 2023. Building the conomasticon: names and naming in fictional worlds. In: ISRAEL NOLETTO, JESSICA NORLEDGE and PETER STOCKWELL, eds., Reading Fictional Languages Edinburgh University Press. 179-194
GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Routledge.
I welcome students who are interesting in pursuing research on English place-names, on names in fiction, on Old English language and / or literature, and on the history of the English language.
Current research students:
(M4C-funded): A Land of Ice and Fire: An Ecocritical Reading of the Landscapes of Islendingasogur
Ben Marshall (M4C-funded): Wild Animals in East Midlands Place-Names
My teaching draws on my own areas of research interest in names and naming, Old English language and literature, and construction and perception of place. I am currently Deputy Director of Education and Student Experience in the School of English, and convene the Undergraduate Dissertation.
Undergraduate modules taught
Beginnings of English (level 1); Writing and Place (level 1); Names and Identities (level 2); Old English: Reflection and Lament (level 2); English Place-Names (level 3); Dissertation (level 3).
Postgraduate modules taught
English Field-Names; The Languages of English Place-Names; Old English Language; Place-Names and the English Landscape; Saints and Heroes in Old English Poetry; Vikings in the East Midlands; Dissertation.