We are delighted to announce the appointment of Allan Fogh Westphall as the second postdoctoral research associate on the Geographies of Orthodoxy project. Allan’s research interests include medieval religious cultures, Middle English devotional writing, especially mystical writing, performance and affective Christocentric devotion, devotional lyric poetry, Lollardy and heresy, and, more broadly, medieval theology and intellectual history. Allan undertook his doctoral research at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and his doctoral thesis breaks new ground in the investigation of late fourteenth and fifteenth century devotional writing. We look forward to having Allan’s formidable knowledge of English religious writing and considerable theoretical sophistication on the team.

We also welcome David Falls as the project’s AHRC-funded doctoral student. David’s thesis will excavate the origins of the iconography of the Passion in late medieval visual and textual cultures and ask how the standardization of representational traditions contributes to the emergence of “orthodox” models of Christocentric devotion.