Michael Angerer

Michael Angerer, Junior Research Fellow in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Michael works on medieval English literature and its place in the multilingual literary landscape around the North Sea. His research combines approaches from literary history, translation theory, and manuscript studies, to show how literary traditions were shaped by cross-language contacts and interactions. Michael’s doctoral project at the University of Oxford examined how translation processes within medieval English history-writing transformed the construction of English identity. For his next project, he is now working towards a new literary history of the medieval North Sea, moving beyond national approaches to literature in order to reveal the role of cultural exchange in shaping literary history.