Miss Isabelle Lepore
Research Student
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Biography
Isabelle took her BA in English Literature at the University of York and her MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. She began her part-time Postgraduate Research studies in 2024 supported by generous funding from the ‘Gender and Otherness in the Humanities’ research centre at the Open University.
Experienced in both museum and archival settings, Isabelle has worked for the Yorkshire Museums Trust and volunteered in the archives at Durham University. She currently works part-time as a Learning Executive at a religious heritage site in South East England.
Research interests
Isabelle's research interests centres on the development of drama between the tenth – twelfth centuries and the influence and involvement of women in shared cultures of performance throughout the medieval period.
Research project: “Gender and Medieval Performance: A case study of the Ludum de Sancta Katerina (c. 1110), Abbot Geoffrey de Gorron and Christina of Markyate”
Supervisors
Professor Elaine Moohan
