Alaric's teaching and supervising and external examining:
| Doctoral supervision | ||
| Angela Smith, 'King Æthelstan in the English, Continental and Scandinavian Traditions of the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries.'
Erika Sigurdson, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Administrative Structures, Literacy and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' |
Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies | 2008- |
| Sheryl McDonald, 'Icelandic-European Dialogue in Nítíða saga' | Leeds: School of English | 2009- |
| Helen Price, 'The Relationship between Human and Non-Human in Anglo-Saxon Literature: Shaping Literary Ecology'
Katherine Miller, 'The Lexicon of Slavery in Old English' |
Leeds: School of English | 2010- |
| Doctoral examining | ||
| Paul B. Sturtevant, 'Based on a True History? The Impact of Popular ‘Medieval Film’ on the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages' | Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies | 2010 |
| Rebecca Fisher, 'Writing Charms: The Transmission and Performance of Charms in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond' | Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics | 2010 |
| Jenni Bergman, 'The Significant Other: A Literary History of Elves' | Cardiff, School of English, Communication and Philosophy | 2011 |
Master's supervision |
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| Natasha Whitbourn, 'Superstitious Minds' | Leeds: School of English | 2010-11 |
| Peter Kissick, The philosophy of magic and the occult in the work of Alan Moore | Leeds: School of English | 2010-11 |
| Kasia Maczynska, Old French influence on Old Norse literature | Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies | 2010-11 |
| Michael Tattersall, The theology of Tolkien’s fiction | Leeds: School of English | 2010-11 |
| Helen Price, 'Nature Speaks: Ecocriticism and the Anglo-Saxon World' | Leeds: School of English | 2009-10 |
| Fiona Senior, 'Are Hobbits Short on Sex? Gender and Sexuality in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings' | Leeds: School of English | 2009-10 |
| Arron Cooper, 'Creating Fantastic Worlds in Twentieth-Century Literature' | Leeds: School of English | 2009-10 |
| Thomas Markwell, 'Narrative Style in the Fornaldarsögur and the Riddarasögur: An Evaluation of Sources and Significance' | Leeds: School of English | 2008-9 |
| Yaara Naor-Elman, 'The Return to Reality: Responding to Disappointment in Beowulf, Le Morte D'Arthur and The Lord of the Rings' | Leeds: School of English | 2007-8 |
| Kirsi Kanerva, ' "...siltikään hän ei ollut onnen mies". Epäonnen käsite ja epäonnen kulttuuriset merkitykset 1200-1300-luvun Islannissa saagan Gísla saga Súrssonar valossa' (' "Though he didn't turn out to be a lucky man": The Conception of Bad Luck and the Cultural Meanings of Bad Luck in the Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Gísla saga Súrssonar') | Turku: Department of Cultural History | 2006-7 | Undergraduate dissertation supervision |
| Rosemary Proctor, 'A Scholarly Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Poem, Vainglory'
Lee Lord, Old English and Middle English echoes in modern fiction Jon Oxtoby, The purpose of magic and the paranormal in fantasy literature Catherine Wright, A study of P-Celtic place-names of the Welsh Borders in the medieval period |
Leeds: School of English | 2009-10 |
| Harriett Richards, 'Beatific States: Jack Kerouac and the Idea of Home'
Yvonne Murray, 'Masculine Identities in Old Icelandic Literature' |
Leeds: School of English | 2009-10 | Laura Holdsworth, 'The Weaving of Magic: Women, Domesticity and the Supernatural in Early Scandinavian Literature'
David Varley, 'A Study into the Perception and Function of Death and the Dead in Medieval Scandinavian and Icelandic Literature' |
Leeds: School of English | 2008-9 |
Seminar courses, master's level |
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| Old and new beliefs in medieval Icelandic literature: from pagan to Christian (master's) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| Vikings, Saxons and heroic culture (master's; team-taught) | Leeds: Institute for Medieval Studies | 2008- |
| Texts and the Word: Christian traditions in Old English literature (master's) | Leeds: School of English | 2007-9 |
| Inventing the Middle Ages (master's; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2007-9 |
Seminar courses, undergraduate level |
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| Old English! | Leeds: School of English | 2009- |
| Shieldmaidens, Matriarchs and Monsters: Women in Medieval Scandinavian Literature (levels 2/3) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| Icelandic Language and Culture I and II (level 1) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| Beowulf (level 2/3) | Leeds: School of English | 2008-9 |
| Old Norse mythology (level 2/3) | Leeds: School of English | 2007 |
| Witch-crazes in early modern Scotland and Europe: belief, ideology and power | Helsinki: Renvall Institute | 2007 |
| Scandinavia and the British Isles, 700-1200 | Helsinki: Renvall Institute | 2007 |
| Old and new beliefs in medieval Scandinavia: from pagan to Christian, 700-1300 | Helsinki: Renvall Institute | 2006 |
| Wenches, widows, wives and witches: women in Anglo-Saxon England | Helsinki: Department of English | 2006 |
| Medieval and renaissance drama 1400-1603 (honours; team-taught) | Glasgow: School of English | 2005 |
| Peer-reviewing and web-weaving training (postgraduate) | Glasgow: Faculty of Arts | 2004-5 |
| English academic writing (intermediate) | Helsinki: Department of English | 2004 |
Lectures |
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| Prose: Reading and Interpretation (level 1; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2009 |
| Language Methodologies and Research Methods (level 1; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| English in Time (level 2; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2009 |
| Exploring Medieval Literature (level 1; team-taught) | 2008- | |
| The Medieval Renascence: Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain-Poet (level 2; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2007- |
| Research Methods (master's level; team-taught) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| The history of the Nordic countries (team-taught) | Helsinki: Renvall Institute | 2007 |
| SharpEdge Writing Skills Course (postgraduate; team-taught) | Glasgow: Arts and Humanities Graduate School | 2006 |
| Old Icelandic literature (honours; team-taught) | Glasgow: Department of English Language | 2001-2004 |
Tutorials |
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| Exploring Medieval Literature (level 1) | Leeds: School of English | 2008- |
| The Medieval Renascence: Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain-Poet (level 2) | Leeds: School of English | 2007- |
| SharpEdge Writing Skills Course (postgraduate; team-taught) | Glasgow: Arts and Humanities Graduate School | 2006 |
| Medieval history (level 2) | Glasgow: Department of History | 2005 |
| Medieval English (level 2) | Glasgow: Department of English Language | 2004-5 |
| English language and literature (level 2) | Stirling: Department of English Studies | 2005 |
| Celtic civilisation (level 1) | Glasgow: Department of Celtic | 2004-5 |
| Medieval history (level 1) | Glasgow: Department of History | 2002-5 |
| English language (level 1) | Glasgow: Department of English Language | 2002-5 |
Informal reading groups |
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| Old Icelandic | Glasgow, Helsinki, Leeds | 2002, 2005- |
| Middle Welsh (administrative support, and participation, only!) | Helsinki | 2005-7 |
| Old English | Glasgow | 2001-3 |