Ruth Kennedy is a lecturer in English at Royal Holloway University of London where she has been since obtaining her doctorate from the University of Bristol in 1991. She teaches an MA option, ‘Medieval Literary London’ as part of the RHUL MA in Medieval Studies which is run in collaboration with the Museum of London. Her main interests and publications are in Middle English, manuscript studies, textual criticism, prosody, language and form. Her publication that is of most interest to medieval literary London is ‘A Bird in Bishopswood: Some Newly-Discovered Lines of Alliterative Verse from the Late Fourteenth Century’,$0H`lÝC Literature and Antiquities: Studies in Honour of Basil Cottle, ed. Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton (Woodbridge, 1987) and ‘Re-creating Chaucer’, in Writing the Lives of Writers, ed. W. Gould and T. Staley (Macmillan and St Martins, London and NY, 1998). She runs ‘Lomers’, the London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (see London Institute of English Studies website or her homepage at the Department of English at rhul.ac.uk). email: r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk.


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