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el&cw@lancaster hosts its ...fourth Annual Open Theology Seminar – God, Literature and Place Dr Emma Nuding (York) , & Professor Mark Knight (South Wales)

This annual event explores theology as an open field, open even the possibilities of literature...

Emma Nuding is Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, where she completed her Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD in 2022. In 2023-2024, she held a lectureship in Early Modern and Medieval Literature at Lancaster University. Her first book, Writing St Guthlac of Crowland, Medieval to Modern, is in press with Boydell and Brewer and charts a Fenland hermit’s reception trajectory from the eighth century to the twenty-first, covering Anglo-Latin, Old English and Middle English texts and utilising place-based approaches. She has published in Medieval Ecocriticisms (2023), The John Clare Society Journal (2022) and Studies in Medievalism (2025), and her co-authored pedagogical work is forthcoming in Speculum (2026). Alongside her research, she currently works in Education and Outreach with Lancaster City Museums.

Kevin Mills is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Wales. He has published three monographs, numerous essays on literary topics, and three collections of poetry.