Oct. 2021 – Oct. 2023
Vertretungsprofessor für Mediävistik und Sprachwissenschaft
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Philologie              

Dec. 2018 – Sept. 2021
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Philologie 

Oct. 2016 – Dec. 2018    
Simon and June Li Darby Fellow in English Literature
Lincoln College, University of Oxford                    

Oct. 2015 – Sept. 2016
Departmental Lecturer and Tutor in Medieval Literature
Faculty of English and Worcester College, University of Oxford

Oct. 2012 – Sept. 2015
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and Junior Research Fellow
Faculty of English and St Anne’s College, University of Oxford        

Oct. 2008 – Dec. 2010
Teaching Assistant for Medieval Literature, Culture, and Reception
Department of English, Queen’s University Belfast                                  

2006 – 2010
PhDin English
Faculty of English, Queen’s University Belfast  

2005 – 2006
MA in English: Medieval Studies. Awarded with Distinction
Faculty of English, Queen’s University Belfast                       

2002 – 2005
BA in English Language and Literature. First Class Honours
Faculty of English, Queen’s University Belfast

• Historical Linguistics
• Theories of Grammar
• Medical Humanities
• Medieval Language, Literature, and Culture

• Invited speaker at the Interdisciplinary Medieval and Renaissance Seminar at University College London, 24/01/22.
• Invited Keynote speaker at the Modelling Emotion, Modelling Identity in Late Medieval Texts conference at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 06/09/21.
• Invited speaker at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 05/07/21.   
• Invited speaker at the Düsseldorf Universität Medieval Seminar, 14/01/20.
• Invited speaker at the Cambridge Middle English Seminar, 23/01/19.
• Invited speaker at the King’s College London Medieval Research Seminar, 05/03/19.
• Invited conference respondent for the London Medieval Society Colloquium on Medieval Medicine, 05/05/18.
• Invited speaker for Sussex Emotional Knowledge, Past and Present Workshop, 03/09/18
• Invited keynote speaker at the London Medieval Society Colloquium on Medieval Emotions, 25/02/17.
• Invited speaker at the Oxford Medieval Society’s Exploring Medical Humanities event, 09/02/17.
• Warwick Medieval Research Seminar: “Purgative Reading in Richard Rolle’s Meditation on the Passion A”, 11/05/16.
• Yale University’s Medieval Colloquium: “Emotion, Literature, and Therapy in the Middle Ages”, and Graduate Medieval Working Group and Dissertation Prospectus, 2-6/02/15.
• Lausanne University: Master’s level workshop 'Writing, Disease and Altered States of Consciousness’, 19/03/15.

Monograph

Daniel McCann, Soul Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England. (University of Wales Press, 2018). Monograph of Leverhulme Early Career Project; unrelated to doctoral thesis.

Edited volume

Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason, eds., Dreadful Passion: Fear in the Literary and Medical Imagination Medieval to Modern. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 

Articles

Daniel McCann, “Charming Words: A Possible Source for the Opening Section of A Talking of the Love of God”Notes & Queries, 68.2 (2021), 158-160.

Daniel McCann, “Bad Sheep: References to Brain Infections in the Cloud of Unknowing” Notes & Queries, 68.2 (2021), 166-167.

Daniel McCann, “Dreadful Health: Fear and ‘Sowle-hele’ in The Prickyng of Love”, in Dreadful Passion: Fear in the Literary and Medical Imagination Medieval to Modern (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 17-36.

Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason, “A Dreadful Start”, in Dreadful Passion: Fear in the Literary and Medical Imagination Medieval to Modern (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 1–16.

Daniel McCann, “Blood and Chocolate: Affective Layering in ‘Swete Ihesu, now wil I synge’”, in Form and Focus in Middle English Lyrics: New Approaches, ed. Christiania Whitehead and Julia Boffey (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), pp. 45-56.

Daniel McCann, “Medicine of Words: Purgative Reading in Richard Rolle’s Meditation on the Passion A”. The Mediaeval Journal 5.2 (2015), pp. 53-83.

Daniel McCann, “Words of Fire and Fruit: The Psychology of Prayer Words in the Cloud of Unknowing”, Medium Aevum 84.2 (2015), pp. 213–230.

Daniel McCann, “Heaven and Health: Middle English Devotion to Christ in its Therapeutic Contexts”, in Devotional Culture in Late Medieval England and Europe: Diverse Imaginations of Christ’s Life, eds. Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry (Brepols, 2015), pp. 335-362.

Daniel McCann, “Feeling Dredeful: Fear and Therapy in The Scale of Perfection”, in Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 30, eds. Andreas Langlotz and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Tübingen: Narr, 2014). pp. 89-107.

Articles in Encyclopaedias

Daniel McCann, ‘Gatesden’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Daniel McCann, ‘Arnold of the Newe Toun’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Daniel McCann, ‘Rufus’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Daniel McCann, ‘Constantyn’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Daniel McCann, ‘Ymaginacioun’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Daniel McCann, ‘Deyscorides’, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).

Work in progress

Daniel McCann, “Corrupted Feelings: Emotions and Mental Health in Medieval Religious Texts” in The Cultural Heritage of Psychiatry and Its Literary Transformations: Middle Ages to the Present, eds. Katrin Röder and Cornelia Wächter (Brill, 2022), 7.000 words.

winter semester 2024/25

Getting Grammar Right for Primary Schools
Towards Proficiency

winter semester 2023/24

Fundamentals of Grammar
Hauptseminar - Middle English: Forms, Functions, Texts
Vorlesung - Essentials of English Linguistics