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Professor EmeritusMargaret Clunies Ross

Emeritus Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Emeritus Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Old Norse-Icelandic Studies, especially Norse mythology, Old Norse-Icelandic poetry (especially skaldic verse), indigenous Norse poetic treatises and poetic theory, the Norse literature of fantasy
  • Medievalism, especially the influence of Old Norse poetry upon European literature and culture after the Renaissance
  • The history of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Gothic studies, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Poetry of the Nordic Past: a new Analysis and Interpretation
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Pre-Christian Religions of the North: A History of Research and Reception
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Oral transmission and oral tradition in early medieval societies
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • James E,
    • James E,
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
    Network for Early European Research1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    The Language of Old Norse Poetry, an important intellectual achievement of the Western Middle Ages
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Writing from the edge of the world medieval Icelandic literature and the quest for social identity
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Images of Old Norse Runic Poetry
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Publication Subsidy
    Australian Academy of the Humanities1 Jan 2004
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    The correspondence of Robert Jamieson (1772-1844) - an edition
    DVC Research1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Old Norse-Icelandic Poetry Poetics and Myth
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2002
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    From Myth to Fantasy in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2001
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Edward Lyes contribution to early Germanic studies part 2
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2000
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M
  • GRANT
    Old Norse skaldic poetry - a new edition
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2000
    People funded by this grant:
    • Clunies Ross M