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- Ségolène Gence
Ségolène is a doctoral researcher funded by CHASE AHRC at the University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She completed her MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies in 2015 at the University of Kent under Dr Ryan Perry upon being awarded the MEMS Friends’ MA Studentship. Ségolène did her undergraduate degree at the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, and at the University of Kent, being awarded a Licence LLCE Anglais mention bien (2014).
She also has experience teaching undergraduate students. After teaching English at the Université Paris-Sorbonne in 2015, she was the French Lectrice at Homerton College, University of Cambridge between 2016 and 2020.
Ségolène has been part of the administrative and curational team of MEMSLib since February 2021. She is currently the CHASE student rep for the University of Kent. As MEMS Social Media Ambassador, Ségolène is responsible for the social media accounts of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Ségolène's research interests reside at the intersections of material contexts of pre-modern religious literature, textual networks, early print culture, manuscript studies, comparative literature, and translation studies.
Ségolène's current research focuses on English devotional literature from the fourteenth and fifteenth century, textual transmission, and manuscript studies. She also dabbles in Anglo-Norman and medieval French literature on the side and takes a particular interest in digital humanities.
Thesis title
Translating and adapting devotion in the Mirror of Holy Church: from Anglo-Norman to Middle English
Ségolène's research is supervised by Dr Ryan Perry.
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