Professor Anya Adair
Professor Anya Adair
Anya Adair researches medieval English literature, as well as pre-modern English law and legal culture. Her focus is the Old English period, but her research extends also to Old Norse and Anglo-Latin, medieval language interaction, book history and manuscript studies, poetry and poetics, digital humanities, and the history of the English language.
Anya holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne, graduate degrees in English from Melbourne and Oxford, and a PhD in English Literature from Yale. She has taught creative writing, medieval and early modern English literature, the history of the English language, palaeography and codicology, and digital humanities.
The historical scope of Anya’s present research covers the seventh to the sixteenth centuries. It aims to unite more closely the fields of medieval law and medieval literature, and to provide insight into the intellectual, emotional and social dimensions of legal and literary production across the period. Her interest in legal and literary culture takes her work into the history of emotion, historical linguistics, religious writing, poetry, poetics and rhetoric, as well as palaeography, codicology, and the history of law. In all of these dimensions, Anya’s research is driven by a fascination with the minutiae of language, and the potential of its smallest detail to solve the puzzles of the past.
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | University of Melbourne | BA(Hons) |
| 2009 | University of Melbourne | LLB |
| 2017 | Yale University | PhD |
| 2015 | Yale University | MA |
| 2015 | Yale University | MPhil |
| 2013 | University of Oxford | MSt |
| 2009 | University of Melbourne | DipML(Russian) |
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-25 | Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-03-01 | Early Career Teaching Award: University of Hong Kong | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2020-11-01 | Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (Teaching Innovations in E-Learning): Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2022-10-28 | Finalist, Early Career Faculty Member (UGC Teaching Award) | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2019-12-01 | Outstanding Teaching Award (Team Award), ‘BA&LLB Programme Curriculum’: The University of Hong Kong | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2015-03-01 | K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award: Association of American Colleges and Universities | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2017-05-01 | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Prize: School of English, Yale University | Research Achievement | |
| 2016-06-01 | Prize Teaching Fellowship: Yale University | Teaching Accomplishment | |
| 2015-05-01 | Noah Webster Prize: School of English, Yale University | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-07-01 | Faculty Research Awards for Junior Tenure-track Professoriate Staff: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2017-05-01 | Travel Award for ISAS CESTA Early Career Workshop in Digital Humanities: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists | Others |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 09/2022 - present | Member | Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance |
| 06/2013 - present | Member | International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England |
| 06/2015 - present | Member | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities |
| 03/2014 - present | Member | New Chaucer Society |
| 03/2016 - 06/2017 | Member, Editorial Board | Yale Journal of Law and Humanities |
| 01/2016 - present | Member | Early English Text Society |
| 03/2016 - 07/2021 | Member | Modern Language Association |
| 01/2013 - present | Member | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
| 03/2015 - present | Member | Medieval Academy of America |
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Old Norse | |
| Old English | |
| Medieval English literature | |
| Manuscript studies | |
| Legal history | |
| Law and literature | |
| Digital humanities | |
| Book history |
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English | 英語 |
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English | 英文 |
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