Liz Herbert McAvoy

Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy is a Welsh scholar of medieval literature who specialises in medieval women's literature, particularly anchorites. She is Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies at Swansea University.

Biography Liz Herbert McAvoy was educated at Aberystwyth University, where she got her first degree in 1977 and her PhD in Medieval English Literature. In 2005, she joined Swansea University, She was later promoted to Professor of Medieval Studies and Emeritus Professor. She has also held a Personal Chair in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University. She also holds an Honorary Senior Research Associate position at the University of Bristol. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.

Publications The Book of Margery Kempe (2003) Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe (2004) Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2002, as editor) Anchorites Wombs and Tombs Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages (2005, as editor) Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure (2008, as editor) A Companion to Julian of Norwich (2008, as editor) Anchoritic Traditions of Medieval Europe (2010, as editor) Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life (2011, as editor) The History of British Women's Writing. Vol. 1 700–1500 (2012, as co-editor)