Felicity Riddy

Who is Felicity Riddy?

Emerita Professor Felicity Riddy is an academic, author and specialist in late-medieval English and Scottish literature.

Educated at Auckland University College/the University of Auckland, New Zealand and the University of Oxford, Riddy taught at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Stirling.

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 have produced articles on urban courtesy texts, romances, devotional reading and domestic authority.