Lotte Reinbold is a Fellow, Director of Studies, and College Teaching Officer at Selwyn College, teaching literature from 1300-1770, with a particular focus upon Chaucer, and his literary afterlives. She did her BA in English at Robinson College, Cambridge, her MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCL, and then her PhD in Medieval Literature at Robinson College. Her current research looks at the reception and afterlife of dream poetry, stretching from the French allegorical dream poem, Le Roman de la Rose, which was written around 1230, right up until Douglas Oliver’s The Infant and the Pearl, published in 1985. What she’s interested in thinking about is why dreams hold so much power over the literary imagination, and whether the genre of medieval dream poetry in particular has a scope and influence beyond the boundaries of Middle English literature. She also works on medievalism, particularly the influences of medieval literature upon the writing of Diana Wynne Jones.
