Dr. Orietta Da Rold

Biography

Professor Orietta Da Rold specializes in Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies. She is a Fellow at St John's College and serves as the Academic Director of the Cambridge University Library Research Institute. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection of medieval literature and historical texts from around 1100 to 1500, with a notable emphasis on Chaucer and digital humanities. She is interested in studying the materiality of manuscripts and works on editorial practices related to medieval texts, codicology, paleography, and scribal production techniques. Da Rold has published extensively, contributing to various academic forms from digital editions to traditional publications. She is an editor for significant works including 'The Dd Manuscript: A Digital Edition of Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.4.24 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales' and the Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts. Her teaching includes supervision of postgraduate projects in medieval manuscript studies and MPhil courses, encouraging research proposals related to the multifaceted and evolving context of medieval literature. Orietta collaborates on several digital humanities projects and has received numerous accolades and grants to support her research endeavors in the field.

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