Charlotte Eichler

Profile

I am a bibliographer and poet. I have an MA in Norse and Viking Studies from the University of Nottingham, and joined the International Medieval Bibliography in 2007, where I am now Project Editor.

My first poetry collection, Swimming Between Islands, was published by Carcanet Press in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize in 2024.

Responsibilities

• Project Editor of the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)

Research interests

My twin interests in Medieval Studies and contemporary poetry have combined with my involvement in Ragna’s Islands, an AHRC-funded research project initiated by The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age at the University of Nottingham. The project is built around Professor Judith Jesch’s new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga). It will bring together evidence of archaeology and place-names to transform our understanding of the Viking and Norse periods in northern Scotland. I have been engaged to stimulate saga- and island-based creativity, and will be doing writing residencies in Kirkwall, North Ronaldsay and Fair Isle in September 2024 and April 2025.

Qualifications

• MA Norse and Viking Studies (University of Nottingham)