Qualifications: 1964-7, BA in English Literature (Oxford);
1967-9, BPhil in Medieval Studies (Oxford); 1969-1977, DPhil
(Oxford). I have been teaching at the University of Southampton
since 1969, specializing in early Middle English literature; I
became a Reader in 1991, and was given a personal Chair in
2008.
My main research interest for much of my working life has been the
group of ten thirteenth-century West Midland religious prose works
making up the Ancrene Wisse Group; I have edited and
translated a number of these works, most recently the book-length
guide for female recluses Ancrene Wisse. More generally, I
am interested in the ‘twelfth-century Renaissance’ and the
‘medieval Reformation’, in early Middle English pastoral literature
and its relationship to new Continental developments, and in
editing (both paper-based and electronic) and textual theory.
For further details, see my homepage, http://www.soton.ac.uk/english/profiles/millett.html.