Degrees Held
B.A., 1997, University of Iowa
M.Phil., 2000, University of Oxford, UK
D.Phil., 2004, University of Oxford, UK
Academic Summary
Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan received her Master’s (M.Phil.) and Doctorate (D.Phil.) from University of Oxford, United Kingdom, in Medieval Languages and Literatures, with a focus on medieval Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. Previous to joining the University of Memphis, she spent two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and one year at the Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Oslo, as a John Dana Archbold Fellow. Her current research project is a book-length study of the monstrous body in medieval Irish and Norse literature, which entails usage of hagiographical, biblical, historical, medical and legal sources to understand the monstrous bodies featured in key 11th to 14th century Irish and Norse literary texts about political rule, war, and poetic wisdom. The study argues that certain fantastic literary bodies are rigorously constructed to reflect learned principles, and that when successfully “read” or decoded, can serve as keys to the meaning of the larger textual enterprise. Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan’s teaching and research interests include medieval British, Irish, Welsh, and Norse literature, language and culture, the cross-cultural developments in the medieval North Sea world, as well as modern Irish literature and language.
Courses Taught
4230 Chaucer and the Medieval World
7/8230 Chaucer
Major Publications
- "Sovereignty’s Body: The Anatomy of Power and the Miracle of Kingship in Irish Literature.” Speculum, October 2006 (forthcoming).
- "Togail Bruidne Da Derga and the Politics of Anatomy." Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, Summer 2005.
- “Prescient Birds and Prospective Kings: Further Discussion of Irish Elements in the Eddic Poem Rígsþula.” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 2001 (forthcoming).
