Neville Mogford is an early career academic, writer, and teacher living and working in Oxfordshire, U.K..

He specialises in the literature and history of early medieval England. He received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2020. He has published academic work on Old English and Latin literature in several major journals.

Qualifications

PhD in English Literature; MA in Medieval Studies; PGCE in Secondary English Teaching; BA (Hons.) in English Literature.

Publications

‘Exeter Riddle 4’ and Two Other Bell Riddles, Anglo-Saxon England (2024)

Moon and Tide: A New Interpretation of Exeter Riddle 22 Based on the Medieval Science of Computus, The Review of English Studies (2022)

Digital editions and commentaries for The Bern Riddles, The Lorsch Riddles, and the Riddles of Boniface, The Riddle Ages (2021-2).

Candle in the Wind: Weather and the Alfredian Candle Clock, Medieval Ecocriticisms (2021).

The Moon and Stars in the Bern and Eusebius Riddles, Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition (2020)

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Current projects

I currently have two articles at review stage. I am also working on a book (fate and chance in Old English poetry) and two new articles (one about roosters in medieval literature, and another about monasticism and Old English elegy).

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