Margaret clunies ross biography sample

Margaret Beryl Clunies RossFAHA (born 24 April 1942) is a medievalist who was until her retirement in 2009 the McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.

Margaret clunies ross biography sample

Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study.^[1] Since 1997 she has led the project of editing a new edition of the corpus of skaldic poetry.^[1][2] She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Life and career

Margaret Tidemann was born in Adelaide, the eldest child of Ernest Phillips Tidemann, a dentist, and his wife Beryl Chudleigh Tidemann, a kindergarten teacher. She attended Walford House, now Walford Anglican School for Girls, until she was almost 17 and graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1962 with First Class Honours in English.

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