J. R. Mattison

Dr. J. R. Mattison is a medievalist and early modernist, with a particular interest in material culture, multilingualism, translation, and the history of the book. Her current research examines the literature and material texts of England and France in a transcultural context. Her research has appeared in the Huntington Library Quarterly, Book History, The Library, Medium Aevum, and elsewhere. She is co-editing a special issue of Digital Philology with Hannah Ryley, called 'Big Data and Manuscript Studies'. She is working on a monograph, French and the English Idea of the Book, 1380-1542, which argues for the importance of French to developing vernacular ideas of the book in the period. Her current work also includes a census of all French manuscripts known to have been in England in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, and a reassessment of the role of migrant scribes working in England in the later Middle Ages. 

Before arriving at UGA, Dr. Mattison was an assistant professor of medieval and Tudor literature at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia.