Elizabeth Boyle is a Research Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at the University of Cambridge. She was educated at a comprehensive school in Suffolk, followed by undergraduate study at the University of Glasgow and postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. From October 2012 – September 2014 she will be visiting the Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork, as a Marie Curie Fellow.

Her research interests cover the religious, cultural and intellectual history of medieval Britain and Ireland. She is attempting to write the first book-length history of the intellectual culture of early medieval Ireland. Previous publications include The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830-1909) (co-edited with Paul Russell), which was published in 2011, and numerous articles in journals including Medium Aevum and Anglo-Saxon England.

Other interests include widening participation in Higher Education, and the history of scholarship in the nineteenth century.