Dr Jessica Berenbeim

Jessica Berenbeim is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of English and a Fellow of Jesus College.

Academic interests

Jessica's academic interest include:

• The aesthetics and materiality of writing
• Museum studies, archives, and archival theory
• Philosophy of history
• Inscriptions
• Medieval art and architecture
• Classical reception studies
• History of the book
• Medieval cultural history.

Jessica teaches for the medieval literature papers in Part I and Part II, and on visual and material culture more broadly in Part II.

Her teaching and supervision interests include: interdisciplinary medieval studies; material texts; the intersections of literary and visual culture; history and theory of museums, libraries, and archives.

Degrees obtained

• BA, Harvard.
• PhD, Harvard.

Biography

Jessica was a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and held the Frances Yates Long-Term Research Fellowship in Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute. She has also held fellowships at or collaborated with a number of cultural institutions, including the British Library, the British Museum, and the National Archives.