Veronica O'Mara

Veronica O'Mara is a historian at the University of Hull who is a specialist in medieval English religious literature, particularly sermons, and female literacy. She is joint editor with Carolyn Muessig of Medieval Sermon Studies.^[1] 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).^[2]

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

1. Dr Veronica O'Mara, BA, MA (NUI), PhD (Leeds). University of Hull. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
2. Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe. Retrieved 25 October 2015.