They are currently co-organising the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion: Impositions and Negotiations seminar series. They are also interested in representations of human-animal hybrids in late medieval texts.ĭuring their PhD, they set up the Critical Theory for Medievalists Reading Group and ran it from 2018-2020. Their latest research builds on these themes, exploring the social and cultural interactions between different systems of knowledge about animals and the natural world between the birth of Scholasticism and the rise of early modern zoology. They are currently working towards publishing this thesis as a monograph. Their interdisciplinary thesis examined the role of representations of animals and the natural world in the development of ideologies of sexuality in late medieval northern European culture (c.1200-1540), using a broad range of Latin, Old and Middle French and Middle English sources including scientific treatises, priests’ manuals, mystery plays, romances, trial records, and legal commentaries. Tim completed their PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies in September 2020 and passed their viva with no corrections in November that year.
