Veronica O'Mara is a historian at the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

who is a specialist in medieval English religious literature, particularly sermons, and female literacy. She is joint editor with

Carolyn Muessig Carolyn Anne Muessig holds the Chair of Christian Studies at the University of Calgary. A graduate of Fulton-Montgomery Community College, State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Toronto, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval St ...

of '' Medieval Sermon Studies''. O'Mara is engaged in a long-term project on Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe which has resulted in conferences in Hull (2011), Missouri-Kansas City (2012), and Antwerp (2013).Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe.
Retrieved 25 October 2015.

Selected publications

*''A Study and Edition of Selected Middle English Sermons'', Leeds Texts and Monographs, n.s. 13 (Leeds: School of English 1994) *''The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XIII, A Handlist of Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in Lambeth Palace Library'' (with Dr O. S. Pickering) (Cambridge: Brewer, 1999) *''The Translation of the Works of St Birgitta of Sweden into the Medieval European Vernaculars'' (with Dr Bridget Morris), The Medieval Translator, 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000) (Editor) *''Four Middle English Sermons Edited from British Library MS Harley 2268'', Middle English Texts, 33 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002) *''Literature, Readers and Dialogue: Essays by and in Reply to Douglas Jefferson'' (with Professor Janet Clare) (Dublin: University College Dublin Press: 2006) (Editor) *''A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons'' (with Dr Suzanne Paul), Sermo, 1, 4 volumes (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007) *''Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue'' (with Professor Virginia Blanton and Dr Patricia Stoop) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013) (Editor) *''Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell'' (with Professor Martha W. Driver), Sermo, 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013) (Editor)

References

Academics of the University of Hull Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Historians of English literature British historians of religion {{UK-historian-stub