Participant Info

First Name
Sheryl
Last Name
McDonald
Country
Denmark
State
Affiliation
University of Copenhagen
Website URL
https://icelandicscribesproject.com
Keywords
Old Norse, Old Icelandic, lexicography, dictionary editing, historical lexicography, book history, digital humanities, translating Old Norse, Old Norse/Icelandic manuscripts, Old Norse literature, medieval literature, women and gender in literature
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

Sheryl McDonald is a Senior Researcher at the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds (2013) and was the recipient of an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen (2016–2018) for the project Icelandic Scribes: Scribal Networks in 17th-Century Iceland.

She is the author of Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítíða saga (Amsterdam University Press, 2016). This book discusses the marginalized genre of late medieval Old Norse romance sagas in their medieval and early modern social context. The book also includes an updated version of her translation of Nitida saga, which she first published in 2009. She has also published several articles on medieval and early modern Icelandic literature, manuscripts, and book history in leading academic journals and presented her research at international conferences in Europe and North America.

Recent Publications

Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítíða saga. Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies 5 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016). 272 pp. ISBN: 9789089647955.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Iceland
Expertise by Geography
Scandinavia
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century
Expertise by Topic
Book History, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Literary History, Material Culture, Women