Dr Frances Ringwood
Lecturer
Qualifications:
BA (UJ), BA Hons, MA (WITS), PhD (UNIZULU)
About
Frances Ringwood teaches in warm, lively classrooms, sharing her insights on English literature with great enthusiasm. She spends her days reading verse from the fourteenth century while developing a thesis on the fragile human body how it was seen as a kind of prison, vulnerable to constant injury in an age when suffering was widespread and remedies were scarce. It was a world long before penicillin, when even simple ailments could become life-threatening.
Research Interests
- The Body as a Prison in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Medieval English Literature
- Renaissance English Literature
- Close reading
- Romance in the Literature of southern Africa
Research Databases/Publications