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James Plumtree

Associate Professor (sabbatical leave)

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

 

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  • Epic - Theory, Practice, History
  • First Year Seminar
  • Manas – Texts, Contexts, and Tradition
  • Medieval Literature and Culture Across Borders
  • Myth and History
  • Text, Context, Intertext
  • World Literature
  • 2014. PhD, Medieval Studies, Central European University
  • 2010. MA, Medieval Studies, Central European University
  • 2009. MA, Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
  • 2007. BA, English Language and Literature, University of Oxford (Oriel College)

Dr. James Plumtree is Associate Professor in the department of General Education. In addition to First Year Seminar, he teaches classes concerned with the intersections of history, literature, and poetry.

His research interests predominantly focus on the medieval and Manas.

At AUCA, he was a founding member of the Analysing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) research group, which recordedtranscribed, and studied performances by contemporary manaschis, and examined earlier versions of the epic.

  • OSUN Faculty Mobility Fellowship (2022)
  • Durham Residential Research Library Fellowship (2022; awarded 2019)
  • Elsevier Fellowship for Digital Scholarship (2019)
  • Tempus Public Foundation Research Scholarship (2019, 2017, 2016)
  • Co-founder of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives(AKYN) research group
  • Central European University Global Teaching Fellow (2015)
  • AUCA Faculty Research Grants
  • AUCA Presidential Research and Education Fund
  • Matthew Nimetz Award for Publication
  • The Epic of Manas
  • Manuscript cultures and methods of reading
  • Medieval historiography and narrative
  • Oral storytelling
  • Textual Communities
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  • Placing the Green Children of Woolpit’, in Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe, ed. Simon C. Thomson, Explorations in Medieval Culture 21 (Leiden: Brill), pp. 202-224.

 

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  • AKYN
  • CESS
  • IAS
  • MCS
  • SILC

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