Hope Doherty-Harrison

Pronouns

She/Her

Biography

After growing up in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Hope studied for her BA and MPhil at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where she was awarded the Margot Heinemann Prize for Shakespeare in 2016, and the Christopher MacGregor Memorial Award for English Literature in 2018. Hope obtained her PhD from Durham University in 2022, funded by a Durham Doctoral Studentship, with a thesis entitled ‘The Virgin Mary Between Ecclesia and Synagoga: Typology, Sin and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Literature, c. 1200-1500’. Hope has worked as a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art from 2022-24, as Centre for Research Collections Fellow at IASH in 2024, and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University in London, from 2024-5. 

Research Interests

• Medieval Latin
• Middle English
• Iconography
• Gender and religion
• Jewish-Christian relations
• Anti-Judaism and antisemitism in the Middle Ages
• Biblical interpretation
• Romance and chivalric culture
• Manuscript studies

Current projects

• The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image, book project
• 'Experiencing the Past', Principal's Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) teaching project

Noteworthy outputs

• Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire (Manchester University Press, 2025)
• Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, ed. Alexandra R. A. Lee, Hope Doherty-Harrison, and E. R. P. Champion (Medieval Institute Publications; De Gruyter Brill, 2025)
• ‘Mary’s Daughter: Gender and Anti-Judaism in Titus and Vespasian’, New Medieval Literatures 26 (2026)
• ‘Self-Injury and Truth in the Hebrew and Latin Seven Sages of Rome’, Open Library of Humanities Journal, Seven Sages of Rome Special Issue, ed. Bettina Bildhauer and Jane Bonsall (2026)
• ‘Supersessionist Time and the Turn of Synagoga in the Northern Homily Cycle and Rawlinson Versions of the Theophilus Legend’, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 12.1 (2023), 88-122
• ‘Love, the Holy Family, and the Song of Songs in the “Judas Ballad”’; in Emotions on the Fringes: Feelings of the Marginalised from Late Antique to Early Modern Literature, ed. Felix Lummer (Trivent Medieval, 2024), pp. 167-203
• ‘Stories out of Order: Autism and Medieval Studies’ in Towards an Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, pp. 125-49
• Catalogue Introduction for Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.10.44, Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00010-00044/1

Links

ECA profile: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-hope-doherty-harrison

IASH profile: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-hope-doherty-harrison

PTAS blog: https://experiencingthepast.wordpress.com/