Felicity Riddy

Felicity Riddy (born 7 June 1940) is an academic, author and specialist in late-medieval English and Scottish literature.

Educated at Auckland University College/the University of Auckland (BA/MA, 1961/1962), New Zealand and the University of Oxford (BPhil, 1965), Riddy taught at Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria) and the University of Stirling (Scotland).

She then joined the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York in 1988, becoming a Professor in 1991. She was Director of the university's interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies in the mid-1990s, became a Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 2000 and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2002 until her retirement in 2007.

She has published widely on medieval women's writing, Arthurian romance, devotional literature and Older Scots poetry. Her interests in urban culture (stimulated by York's Centre for Medieval Studies inter-disciplinary urban Household Research Group) have produced articles on urban courtesy texts, romances, devotional reading and domestic authority.

Notable students of Riddy include Kim Phillips, professor of history at the University of Auckland. Provided by Wikipedia