Ranke de Vries
On Sabbatical 2023-24
Ranke de Vries is an associate professor, holder of the Ben Alder Chair in Celtic Studies. She holds a Masters in Celtic Languages and Literature, as well as a Masters in Medieval Studies from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a PhD in Early Irish from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled ‘De causis torchi Corc’ Óche and Aided Echach maic Maireda’, which was revised and published in 2012 as volume 65 of the Irish Texts Society series. In 2014, she came to St Francis Xavier University from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where she spent several years as a professor in Celtic Languages and Culture.
Her research interests include medieval Irish and Welsh languages and literatures, narrative tradition, textual edition and the history of medieval (Celtic) medicine. She is currently involved in the MMIST project (Medicine in Medieval Irish Saga Texts), which seeks to investigate to what degree medieval Irish scholars made use of continental European and Arabic medical tradition prior to the appearance of the earliest medical manuscripts in the 15th century.
Dr de Vries is on sabbatical from the 1st of July 2023 to the 30th of June 2024.
De Vries, Ranke, 2021. 'Medieval medicine and the healing of Caílte in Acallam na Senórach', North American Journal of Celtic Studies 5.1: 49-82.
De Vries, Ranke. 2020. A student's companion to Old Irish Grammar - second revised edition. Forgotten Scholar Press (Burlington).
De Vries, Ranke. 2019. 'An edition of the rosc passage in the Recension C dindshenchas of Port Láirge', Ériu 69: 55-79.
De Vries, Ranke. 2019. 'A short tract on medicinal uses for animal dung,' North American Journal of Celtic Studies 3.2: 111-36.
De Vries, Ranke. 2018. 'Some remarks on text-internal narrative openers in early Irish literature', Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 36:194-214.
De Vries, Ranke. 2015. 'Instances of mirrored alliteration in the earliest Irish poetry', Australian Celtic Journal 13: 33-95.
