This year she pursued place-based literary geography and close textual study of primary narratives in the pre-1066 world, developing historical empathy, source skepticism, nuanced reading, and a stronger rhetorical voice through discussion, memorization, and composition as preparation for next year's work on Arthurian romance (lays, Sir Gawain) and post-1066 transformations.
Complementary geography and cultural-studies work folded literary landscapes and medieval geographies into map-based projects and comparative place-studies—tracing logistics of travel and trade, the cultural memory of animals and exotic curiosities, and evolving timelines—to build cartographic literacy and spatial reasoning alongside textual inquiry.
These integrated studies strengthened interdisciplinary connections, sharpened her historical imagination and critical questioning, and left her well prepared for advanced medieval and post-medieval studies in the coming year.