Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social

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Leverhulme ECF, Edinburgh Uni, soon Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck. Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP. Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025); Co-ed, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025). She/her

Session 1720 from the IMC Leeds Programme, p. 393, 'Future Insight and its Discontents'.
Photograph of one of Birkbeck's buildings in Bloomsbury with a curving road in front of it, with blue sky and leaves above.
The cover of New Medieval Literatures 26, on a wooden desk
Hope Doherty-Harrison on 13 April 2022 stood by the red front door of Durham's English department, holding three copies of a finished PhD thesis ready to hand them in.
Book by Heather Pulliam, 'Art, Nature, and the Body in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland', on a blue sofa cushion with a bookshelf in the background.
Letter from the Royal Historical Society: 20 February 2026 Dear Hope Doherty-Harrison, I am delighted to inform you that at its last meeting on 6 February 2026, the Council elected you a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of your contribution to historical scholarship.
Details of two sessions at IMC Leeds 2026: 623 Tuesday, 7 July 2026: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM #DisMed 8: A Round Table Discussion Round Table Participant Step free access, seating for panellists in view of camera and near microphone. Ground floor room or near a lift, dimmed lights in the room. 1720 Thursday, 9 July 2026: 2:15 PM-3:45 PM 'Prophecy and the Oedipal Desire of Judas: Medieval Legacies of Origen's Contra Celsum'
Discussing/reading from new book 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', in a seminar format and with flowers on a table.
A copy of Textile Shakespeare, by Hester Lees-Jeffries, with more books in the background on a work desk.
A photo of Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing a navy blue shirt holding an author copy of her book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, against a background of green trees/bushes.
A copy of Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance on a cream, white and blue fabric background/sofa.
Bryony Coombs and Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing blue Glasgow Science Festival t-shirts and holding up parchment-style paper and quills for our public engagement/outreach activity 'Making Medieval Manuscripts'. In front of us there is a table covered in blue plastic with an ink pad, stamps (replicas of medieval illustrations), an inkwell and various manuscript art made by ourselves and participants.
A medieval illustration of a queen in bed cradling an infant child, with an attendant sat next to the bed - Judas as a baby with his adoptive mother (queen of the island Scarioth), from Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek / Gen. 8, f. 223v.
Front cover for Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, illustration from British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2 of Lady Bertilak and Gawain in the bedchamber. Gawain is lying down with eyes closed, wrapped in green blankets, and Lady Bertilak is wearing a spotted dress, seated beside him with her hair up, her arms outstretched in a loose embrace and touching under his chin.
Three medievalists in a pilgrim photo stand-in board at Canterbury cathedral.
A slide of a conference presentation about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with quoted sections (lines 1841-5, 1837-8, 644, 1818, 1827-9) and an illustration from Paris, BnF, MS Francais 9561, f.2v, showing the Virgin Mary holding a red book with a pentangle on it. The illustrations of Gawain and Lady Bertilak from the Cotton AX manuscript are cropped and facing one another as if speaking to each other at either side of the quoted text, and background from Febrian Zakaria on Unsplash, depicting a series of gold rings arranged on red fabric, dimly lit.
Dr Bryony Coombs, Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison and Dr Judd Harrison stood behind the activity table, all wearing 'Glasgow Science Festival' light blue t-shirts. Behind them is a carriage of an old Glasgow subway train.
First slide for a conference presentation entitled 'Secret Sacrifices: Gawain, Lady Bertilak, and Abraham', with pictures of Abraham from the Tall Cross in Monasterboice, Ireland (photograph), and Lady Bertilak with Gawain in bed from the Gawain/Pearl manuscript, London, British Library Cotton Nero A X 2, fourteenth century (from Wikimedia Commons).
A projector showing the first slide of a talk, 'Judas's Medieval Family', against a background of bookshelves.
A sideways view of a folder with a stack of white paper, some of which is folded over in the corners, book proofs for 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance'. Some gold decoration showing on the desk next to the folder.
'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', book title, with the Manchester University Press logo. Page proofs/a stack of white A4 paper in a ring binder on a desk.
An intricately-carved fifteenth-century chapel ceiling, showing multiple arches over the altar.
A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.