Jonathan Adams
Forskare docent vid Institutionen för nordiska språk
- E-post:
- jonathan.adams[AT-tecken]nordiska.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3L, hus 16 plan 2 - Postadress:
- Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA
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Project coordinator for the infrastructure project The Norse Perception of the World (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond).
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Matariki Fellow (Medieval and Early Modern Thought and Affect) at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia, spring 2016 (3 months).
- Guest Researcher at the Arnamagnæan Institute, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen, 2014–2015 (1 February).
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 2013.
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Docent and Research Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University investigating the portrayal of Muslims and Jews in medieval texts in Danish and Swedish (2012-2017).
- Senior Editor and researcher at the Society for Danish Language and Literature, Copenhagen, 2006-2012.
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Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, University of Nottingham, 2004-2006.
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Editor and researcher at the Society for Danish Language and Literature, Copenhagen, 2003-2005.
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Research Assistant at the Arnamagnæan Institute, Scandinavian Studies Research Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2003-2005.
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Lecturer in Danish and Scandinavian Studies, University of Hull, 1995-2003.
Research interests
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Language contact and mixture in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.
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Textual scholarship, material philology and electronic text editing of manuscripts and early books.
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Historical linguistics and dialectology (mainland Scandinavia)
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Medieval sermons and preaching.
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Medieval concepts of ethnic identity and Otherness.
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Muslim-Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages.
Publications currently under preparation
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Jonathan Adams, The Poet of Mauriceville: Lars Andersen Schow — a biography of the nineteenth-century Danish immigrant to New Zealand and an edition of his works: memoirs, poems, songs, short stories, and political and religious writings.
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Jonathan Adams, Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell, the Old Dane — an edition of the reminiscences of the nineteenth-century Danish whaler, trader, and Pākehā-Māori Phillip Tapsell (1790–1873).
Past teaching
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University of Hull: Danish language (modern), Old Danish and Swedish language and literature, Old Icelandic, Scandinavian language history, Viking-Age history.
Past research projects
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Diplomatarium Danicum, together with Markus Hedemann, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, Thomas Hansen and Mogens Devantier. 2008-2011.
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Renæssancens Sprog i Danmark, together with Peter Zeeberg. 2006-2009.
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An English Dictionary of Runic Inscriptions in the Younger Futhark, together with Judith Jesch and Ian Richardson. 2004-2006.
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Studér Middelalder på Nettet, together with Ebba Hjorth, Marita Akhøj Nielsen, Merete K. Jørgensen and Simon Skovgaard. 2003-2005.
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Electronic Manuscript Cataloguing at the Arnamagnæan Collection, University of Copenhagen, together with Matthew Driscoll. 2003-2005.
Qualifications
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Docent in Scandinavian Languages (Uppsala University, 2013).
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PhD in Old Swedish and Middle Norwegian (University College London, 2005).
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MSt in the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (University of Cambridge, 2012).
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PGCert in Research Training (University of Hull, 2000).
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MA in Medieval Vernacular Languages and Literatures (University of Hull, 1997).
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BA in Scandinavian Studies (University of Hull, 1994).
Membership in learned societies
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The Philological Society, since 2007.
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Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, since 2008.
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Det Unge Akademi (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab), 2011-2015.
Miscellaneous
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Co-editor of Medieval Sermon Studies, together with Ralf Lützelschwab since 2010.
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Honorary Research Associate, University College London, August 2013-July 2016.
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External examiner (próvdómari) for Føroyamálsdeildin, Fróðskaparsetur Føroya, 2013-[2018].
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Coordinator of Selskab for østnordisk filologi since 2013.
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Academia.edu profile.
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