Alaric Hall, CV

Employment

Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds (junior lecturer 2007-16, senior lecturer 2016-).

Research fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2005-7).

Education

B.Ed. (2025-) in Elementary Education, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.

Foundation Language Study (2016-18) in Arabic, Leeds Beckett University. Distinction.

Postgraduate Certificate (2008-11) in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Leeds. Pass.

Ph.D. (2001-4) on 'The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England', Department of English Language, University of Glasgow (2003-4 at Department of English, University of Helsinki).

M.Phil. (taught) (2000-1) in Medieval Studies, Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Distinction.

B.A. (1997-2000) in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Magdalene College, Cambridge. Part I: 1st; part II: 2/1.

Secondary education (1991-97) at Aylesbury Grammar School, including A-levels in Latin, History, English, and General Studies.

Publications and teaching

For Alaric's publications (and free-access texts thereof) see publications. For details of Alaric's teaching, supervising and examining, present and past, see teaching.

Other Experience and Activities

Volunteering

Leeds Green Party (2014-, Leeds City Council election candidate 2018-24, secretary 2021-23, treasurer 2024-).
Greenhouse residents' and leaseholders' committee (2012-).
Academy Advisory Body member at Park View Primary Academy, Leeds (2014-25, chair 2019-25).
St Lukes tenants' and residents' committee (2014-21).
IntoUniversity, a volunteer-supported after-school homework club for disadvantaged schoolchildren (2019-20).
Weekly after-school debating society at David Young Community Academy, a secondary school in a disadvantaged area of Leeds (2013-16).

Positions of responsibility (administrative, University of Leeds)

School of English: fire warden (2012-25); director of personal tutoring (2012-13); undergraduate admissions tutor (2014-19); deputy director of student education (2024-25); academic integrity tutor (2024-25).
Institute for Medieval Studies: external audit committee (2010); International Medieval Congress standing committee (2010-14, 2022-25); IMS steering committee (2011-16, 2022-); IMS director (2019-22); contributor to the International Medieval Bibliography (2025-).
University and College Union: joint honorary secretary 2018-19; membership secretary 2019-21; treasurer 2021-23.
Senate: elected member 2019-22.

Positions of responsibility (scholarly)

Expert for the European Research Executive Agency, assessing Horizon Europe grant applications (2025-).
(Co-)editor of Leeds Studies in English and its successor Leeds Medieval Studies (2009-25; editioral board member 2007-25).
External examiner, BA Scandinavian Studies, University College London (2021-24).
External examiner, BA English, University of Hull (2017-21).
Editorial assistant for Viking and Medieval Scandinavia (2008-14).
Council member of the Viking Society for Northern Research (2009-11, 2014-17).
Vice-chair of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies (2006-8).

Research funding

ISK20,206,250 (~£125,000) for 'Riches to rags: The popularisation of rímur poetry in post-medieval Iceland' (Rannís, 2025-28) [co-investigator]
ISK7,350,000 (~£47,000) for 'Gullskinna. Postmedieval transmission and reception of a lost medieval parchment-codex' (Rannís, 2015-18) [co-investigator]
£20,531 for 'Constructing crisis: Icelandic cultural responses to the 2008 financial crisis' (Leverhulme Trust, 2013-14).
£2,445 for 'Sigrgarðs saga frækna: the manuscript tradition' (British Academy, 2009).
£4,000 project funding + £1,000 honorarium, Leeds University Teaching Fellowship (University of Leeds, 2009).
€2,110 for Hel-Lex II conferences on English historical lexis, Department of English, University of Helsinki (Finnish Academy, 2005).

Full texts of some grant applications are available here.

Keynotes etc.

'Elves, terrorists, and Iceland: from Christianisation to financial crisis', Supernatural Creatures: from Elf-Shot to Shrek (University of Łódź, 2014).
The autumn 2011 Beck Lectures in Icelandic Literature and Culture at the University of Victoria.