Jasmine Bria’s scholarly interests centre on Germanic philology, Old and Middle English languages and literatures.
\nShe is currently Adjunct Temporary Lecturer in “Germanic Philology” at the University of Foggia and at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, a position she also held from 2021 to 2023 at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
\nFrom 2022 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calabria, where she also taught courses in Textual Criticism and Philology and Computational Linguistics.
\nShe obtained her PhD from the University of Calabria in 2021.
\nIn 2019, she was a visiting PhD student at the University of Birmingham and participated in the Arnamagnaean Summer School in Manuscript Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
\n\nHer research focuses on both the Old English and Middle English periods.
\nIn particular, she worked on a parallel reading of the Exeter Book Riddles and the Wonders of the East as different perspectives exploring the relationships between humans, animals, and intermediate creatures, resulting in the monograph Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England (Peter Lang, 2023).
\n\nShe has also researched the Galfridian historical tradition.
\nShe has written on Laȝamon’s late twelfth-century poem Brut, studying it from a number of angles, such as the portrayal of King Leir and the development of supernatural characters and situations in the Arthurian sections, while also examining the later development of the material, in particular the Arthurian narratives in the textual transmission of the Prose Brut chronicles.
\n\nMore recently, her research interests have shifted towards the literary aspects of the Arthurian tradition, with particular emphasis on the analysis of representations of the character Morgan le Fay in Middle English literature
