Participant Info
- First Name
- Sheryl
- Last Name
- McDonald
- Country
- Denmark
- State
- smcdonald@hum.ku.dk
- 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
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- 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
- Social Media
- sherylmcd.bsky.social
- 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