Dr Katherine Storm Hindley

Katherine is an Intellectual Forum Senior Research Associate.

Katherine Storm Hindley is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Director of the London International Palaeography School.  

Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of medieval literature, manuscript studies, and the history of medicine.  

Katherine's book, Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England, studies words at their most powerful, and will be available from June 2023.  It examines the medieval belief that spoken and written words, in the form of charms and textual amulets, could physically change the world.  By tracing ideas about the power of words across the Middle Ages, the project reveals complex and shifting attitudes about language, speech, text, and material object.  This research has been supported by the Medieval Academy of America, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Josephine de Karman Fellowship, among others.  

Katherine received her PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 2017.  She also holds an MA (Oxon.) in English and an MSt in Medieval Studies, both from the University of Oxford.

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