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Mike Bintley is an Associate Professor specializing in Medieval English Literature at the University of Southampton. His transdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections of textual material culture, landscapes, and the environment, with a particular emphasis on trees, plant life, buildings, settlements, and their influence on mental and physical landscapes. He edits the book series 'Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages' with Boydell & Brewer, and he contributes to the journal Medieval Ecocriticisms. Bintley is the author of 'Trees and Religions in Early Medieval England' (Boydell, 2015) and 'Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England: Texts, Landscapes, and Material Culture' (Brepols, 2020), which won the English Association's Beatrice White prize. He has co-authored and edited several collections, including 'Landscapes and Environments in the Middle Ages' (Routledge, 2023) and 'Transitions: Relationships of Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe' (Isle Heritage, 2023). In addition to his scholarly work, he is currently involved in projects that include an anthology of trees and plant life in the earliest English poetry and a creative nonfiction book about landscapes in early medieval England.
University of Southampton • Southampton, England
Teaching and researching Medieval English Literature.
Birkbeck, University of London • London, England
Taught Medieval English Literature and conducted research.
Canterbury Christ Church University • Canterbury, England
Engaged in teaching and research in Medieval Literature.