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Jayne Carroll

Professor in Early English and Name-Studies, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

I was educated at University College London (BA English Literature and Language), King's College London (MA English Language and Literature before 1525), and the Universities of Nottingham (PhD) and Iceland (as the recipient of the Government of Iceland Ministry of Education, Science and Culture scholarship). I held lectureships at University College Dublin and the Universities of Sheffield and Leicester before coming to Nottingham in 2009 to direct the Institute for Name-Studies.

Expertise Summary

English place-names; Old English and Old Norse language and literature; the history of the English language.

I am Honorary Secretary of the English Place-Name Society (EPNS). Recent externally-funded projects include:

  • The place-names of Shropshire: a four-year AHRC-funded project to complete the EPNS survey of Shropshire;
  • Learning the Landscape through Language: an AHRC project following on from the work in Shropshire;
  • Flood and flow: place-names and the changing hydrology of river-systems (with the Universities of Leicester, Southampton, and Wales);
  • Enhancing UK Flood Resilience: a two-year AHRC network (with the University of Leicester)

I am currently Project Lead for an AHRC follow-on project, Place-names, landscape futures, and farming practices in Shropshire and beyond, a collaboration with the National Trust and Shropshire Hills National Landscape.

I am also working with Staffordshire Record Office, where a volunteer group is collecting historical place-name spellings, preparatory work for a project to complete a digital survey of the county of Staffordshire.

Outreach and public engagement

I am engaged upon a programme of outreach activities in connection with the above projects. My work on Shropshire place-names included a series of talks in Shropshire and curating three exhibitions, in Oswestry, Ludlow, and Shrewsbury.

Teaching Summary

My teaching draws on my research in Old English and Old Norse language and literature, and in English place-names.

Undergraduate modules taught

Beginnings of English (level 1); Names and Identities (level 2); English Place-Names (level 3); Dissertation (level 3)

Postgraduate modules taught

Place-Names in Context; Reading Old English; Dissertation

Research Summary

I was principal investigator for the AHRC-funded research project, The Place-Names of Shropshire. Colleagues within the Institute for Name-Studies and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studes… read more

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