Teaching

During the Winter semester 2025-26, Hannah will teach the PS “Distant Climes and Distant Times: Travel in and with the Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas” (Alma).

Research:

Hannah recently completed her PhD at the University of York, UK, with a thesis titled ‘“Sheaves from Sagaland": Island Medievalism and the Norse North Atlantic in British Writing (1860-present)’. This was a project which examined the influence of medieval Old Norse-Icelandic literature on modern British writing about the North Atlantic archipelagos settled by the Norse. Utilising a broad range of textual materials and genres, this research explored narratives of medieval (dis)continuity in Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland, as well as depictions of these places as being temporally as well as physically distant from the UK and mainland Europe. Hannah is currently preparing this project for pubication as a monograph.

More broadly, her research interests include the role and influence of islands on storytelling; historical reception; women's intellectual history; and the Environmental Humanities.

Publications:

2024

• Armstrong, Hannah and Rebecca Menmuir, ‘Editors’ introduction: Medieval Forgeries/Forging the Medieval', postmedieval: a journey of medieval cultural studies 15, no. 2, (2024), 419-435: doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00315-4
• Armstrong, Hannah and Rebecca Menmuir, eds: ‘Medieval Forgeries/Forging the Medieval’, Essay Cluster in postmedieval: a journey of medieval cultural studies 15, no. 2, (2024).

2023

• Armstrong, Hannah, ‘"The Northland of Old": The Use and “Misuse” of (medieval) Iceland’, International Medievalisms: From Nationalism to Activism (ed.) Mary Boyle (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), 95-110: doi.org/10.1515/9781800109087

2022

• Armstrong, Hannah, ‘“Possessed, magical, and dangerous to handle”: Jane Ellen Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists’, Hellebore 7 (2022), 63-71.