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Jessica Berembeim

Phone number: +44 (0)1223 760598

Email: jb455@cam.ac.uk

Dr Jessica Berenbeim

Fellow
University Positions
University Associate Professor in Literature and Visual Culture
Subjects
Specialising in
Medieval Studies; Literature and Visual Culture

Jessica Berenbeim is a University Associate Professor at the Faculty of English and a Fellow of °µÍø½ûÇø.

Academic interests

Jessica's academic interest include:

  • The aesthetics and materiality of writing
  • Museum studies, archives, and archival theory
  • Philosophy of history
  • Inscriptions
  • Medieval art and architecture
  • Classical reception studies
  • History of the book
  • Medieval cultural history.

Jessica teaches for the medieval literature papers in Part I and Part II, and on visual and material culture more broadly in Part II.

Her teaching and supervision interests include: interdisciplinary medieval studies; material texts; the intersections of literary and visual culture; history and theory of museums, libraries, and archives.

Degrees obtained

  • BA, Harvard.
  • PhD, Harvard.

Biography

Jessica was a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and held the Frances Yates Long-Term Research Fellowship in Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute. She has also held fellowships at or collaborated with a number of cultural institutions, including the British Library, the British Museum, and the National Archives.

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