Rachel Fletcher
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. R.A. Fletcher
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- r.a.fletcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2812-6137
Rachel Fletcher is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Rachel Fletcher
Rachel Fletcher is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe (EMERGENCE), focusing on networks of scholarly correspondence between nineteenth-century scholars of Old English. She also teaches Old English and medieval studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
Her background is in medieval studies and linguistics, and she has a particular interest in the history of lexicography. Her PhD thesis (University of Glasgow, 2021), titled 'Pushing the boundary: the periodisation problem in dictionaries of Old English', examined the construction of Old English as a linguistic period in dictionaries from the seventeenth century to the present day. She has published on the history of Old English studies, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English medievalism.
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Oude Britse letterkunde
- Fletcher R.A., Porck M.H. & Traxel O.M. (Eds.) (2022), Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Medievalism no. 21. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer.
- Fletcher R.A., Porck M.H. & Traxel O.M. (2022), Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism. In: Fletcher R.A., Porck M.H. & Traxel O.M. (Eds.), Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Medievalism no. 21. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 1-16.
- Fletcher R.A. (2021), A Minor Period of a Major Language: Lexicographical Approaches to Late Old English. In: Van de Velde H. & Dolezal F.T. (Eds.), Broadening Perspectives in the History of Dictionaries and Word Studies 92-116.
- Fletcher R.A. (2021), Review of: edited by Maren Clegg Hyer Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey. English Studies 103(1): 162-165.
- Fletcher R.A. (2020), Tolkien's Work on the Oxford English Dictionary: Some New Evidence From Quotation Slips, Journal of Tolkien Research 10(2): 9.
- Fletcher R.A. (2018), “Most active and effectual assistance” in the correspondence of Sir William Dugdale and William Somner, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 78: 166-184.