Dr. Leah Tether

Biography

Leah Tether is a Professor at the University of Bristol, specializing in Medieval Literature and Publishing Studies. She completed her PhD in Medieval Literature at Durham University in 2009 and subsequently became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Economy Institute, Anglia Ruskin University. Tether has a strong background in trade publishing, having worked with Penguin Books before joining Anglia Ruskin University as a Senior Lecturer in Publishing in 2012, where she progressed to Principal Lecturer in 2014. Since joining the University of Bristol in 2015, she has held roles including Graduate Education Director and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies. Her research focuses on the publishing histories of vernacular medieval narratives, alongside manuscript and digital studies. Noteworthy publications include "Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval" (D.S. Brewer, 2012) and "Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France" (D.S. Brewer, 2017). Tether currently supervises postgraduate research in areas such as Arthurian Literature, digital humanities, and book history, and teaches undergraduate courses on medieval literature and digital cultures.

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