Ellie O'Shea
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About
After completing her BA and MA in English studies at Durham University, Ellie joined the French department at Cambridge as a part-time PhD student in 2019. She held a teaching position at the ENS de Lyon from 2021 to 2023, where she was also a research associate at the CIHAM, a research centre for the study of the medieval period. In 2024, Ellie was the first Braudel Intern at the EHESS, in Paris, where she worked as an academic editor and translator for the journal Annales. She is now a teaching associate at the MMLL faculty and at the Cambridge University Language Centre.
Research
Ellie looks at the different ways in which medieval Arthurian romance objectifies, imagines, and engages with repositories of knowledge. Using theory by Derrida and Foucault, she aims to trace the intersection of archival and memorial technologies as they appear in various spaces and sites. Additional research interests include: Genealogy in Arthurian romance, in particular matrilineage, trauma theory, and Middle English romance.
Teaching and supervision
Ellie is currently a teaching associate at the MMLL faculty and at the Cambridge University Language Centre. She is also a teaching fellow with the Global History Lab, where she works in collaboration with SciencesPo in Paris.