Professor Barry Windeatt

Barry Windeatt was elected an Official Fellow in 1978 and is Keeper of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Biography

At various times Barry Windeatt has been Director of Studies in English (1979–97), a Tutor (1982–95), Vice–Master, and Chair of the Research Fellowships Committee (2013–20), and more briefly: Acting Admissions Tutor in Arts (1991), Financial Tutor (1992–3), Acting Graduate Tutor (1993), and Fellow Librarian and Archivist. As Keeper of Rare Books, he is preparing a catalogue of the Graham Watson Collection of hand-coloured books c.1770–1840 in Emmanuel College Library, as well as revising the catalogue of the College’s portraits and pictures.

Research

His research focusses on the literature of later medieval England in its European dimension and also in relation to its contemporary visual culture, with particular interests in Chaucer and in such contemplative writers as Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. He is currently completing two projects: a cultural history of text and image in medieval East Anglia, and a study of gesture and body language in medieval writing.