Elizabeth M. Tyler

Elizabeth M. Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York. She is a co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and the University of York. She is an expert in the literary culture of England from the ninth to the twelfth centuries.

Education

Tyler received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1994. Her doctoral thesis was titled The Collocation of Words for Treasure in Old English Verse. The thesis used a study of the collocation of words for treasure to address the question of the relationship between the conventionality and originality of Old English verse.

Career

Tyler was appointed at the University of York in 1995. She is an editor of an open-access journal, Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures. She is a general editor for the Studies in the Early Middle Ages series, published by Brepols. She is an editorial board member for the Old English Series of the Medieval Library">Middle Ages">Medieval Library, published by Harvard University Press. Tyler is an executive committee member for Carmen: The Worldwide Medieval Network.