Participant Info
- First Name
- Sheryl
- Last Name
- McDonald
- Country
- Canada
- State
- mcdonaldsheryl@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent
- Website URL
- https://icelandicscribesproject.com
- Keywords
- Old Norse, Old Icelandic, book history, digital humanities, translating Old Norse, Old Norse/Icelandic manuscripts, Old Norse literature, medieval literature, women and gender in literature
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Sheryl McDonald (McDonald Werronen) obtained her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2013 and held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen from 2016–2018. 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 and includes the first English translation of Nitida saga. She has also published several articles on medieval and early modern Icelandic literature, manuscripts, and book history in leading academic journals.
- 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
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Iceland
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, Scandinavia, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Women
