Mrs Isabelle Lepore-Thompson
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 previously worked for the Yorkshire Museums Trust and volunteered in the archives at Durham University. She currently also works part-time as a Learning Executive at St Albans Cathedral.
Research interests
Isabelle’s research interests include the cultural history of the Church in medieval England, hagiography, performance, and the roles of women and gender throughout the period. Her current research project focuses on the development of religious and civic drama between the tenth and twelfth centuries, and on the influence of women within shared cultures of performance across 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
