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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Hope Doherty-Harrison is Lecturer in Medieval Studies. 

    After two years as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval Art History at the University of Edinburgh, Hope held a Centre for Research Collections Fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), also at Edinburgh, working on a group of fifteenth-century manuscripts from Erfurt held in the library collections.

    Hope was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University in London, and then a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on a book project about Judas in medieval literature and visual culture.

    Hope joined Birkbeck in September 2026.

    Honours and awards

    • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Advance HE, August 2024
    • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Royal Historical Society , August 2026

    ORCID

    0000-0002-7115-2533

  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Jewish-Christian relations
    • Biblical interpretation
    • Romance and chivalric culture
    • Iconography
    • Manuscript studies
    • Gender and sexuality
    • Medicine and the body

    Research overview

    Hope’s current and previous work has focused on antisemitism in medieval literature, especially regarding biblical typology and supersessionism, and including intersections with gendered and sexual violence. She is the author of Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of Violence and Desire (Manchester University Press, 2025).

    She is now working on a book about depictions of Judas in medieval texts and images, aiming to reframe Judas as a figure through whom key theological questions could be articulated, alongside and indeed because of his vilification. 

    Research Centres and Institutes

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans
    • Becoming Modern: Literature and Culture 1800 to the Present
    • Medieval and Renaissance Literatures
    • Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul