Phoebe Macindoe

My main research interests are in Middle English Literature, specifically Chaucer and Gower, and the manuscripts and early printed books in which their texts survive. My thesis, entitled Bridging the Gaps: The Journey of Blank Spaces in Medieval Manuscripts from Scribe to Screen, examined blank spaces in two manuscripts: Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 7, containing John Gower's Confessio Amantis, and Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 409, containing the Middle English Romaunt of the Rose. I then followed these spaces through each of the printed editions of these texts and then into their digital editions. I found that blank spaces are valuable evidence for the use of manuscripts during and after their construction, and for the relationships between printed editions. I am also interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and early printed books, leading to my first publication Unbe-leaf-able; leaf books from California to St Andrews which discussed the role of book clubs in the biblioclasm of early printed books.

Due to my interest in Digital Humanities, I serve as webmaster for the following sites:

• Middle English Texts Series
• The Gower Project (Currently in process of updating)

I have also created my own DH project, a hypertext edition of The Book of the Duchess to serve as a practical example of elements discussed in my MA dissertation (The E-Book of the Duchess, supervised by Dr Holly James-Maddocks)

I have also served as an organiser of the St Andrews School of English Postgraduate Forum and The Institute of Scottish Historical Research and the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies Residential Conference

School of English 

• Module Lecturer- EN4317 “Diversifying Old English” (Honours) Wonders of the East and Said’s Orientalism; EN2003“Medieval and Renaissance Texts” (Sub-honours) Heroic Ideals in Old English Poetry.
• Seminar Tutor- EN2003 “Medieval and Renaissance Texts” introducing second year undergraduate students to Old English, Middle English, Middle Scottish, and Renaissance texts.

Interdisciplinary School

• Seminar Tutor- ID1003 “Great Ideas” offered to undergraduates in all Schools of St Andrews, tracing major intellectual and societal threads in the development of modern civilisation.

St Andrews Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development

• Workshop leader-  Close Reading and Analysis Skills, along with offering one-on-one assistance for undergraduate students.