Dr. Zeiser has presented her scholarly work at a number of academic conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. Below is a selection of her work.
Published papers
Forthcoming
- “A Note on the Dating of the Latin Poem ‘Trucidare Saxones,’” in Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures, eds. Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley (University of Wales Press, 2025).
- “The ‘Lament’ of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien and its Manuscript Context,” accepted for publication in a volume in the Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (TCNE) series published by Brepols, 2025.
In Print
- “Bragmaticus omnibus Brittonibus: David, Sulien, and an Ecclesiastical Dynasty in Conquest-era Wales,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 31 (2012): 305-320.
- “Performing a Literary Paternity Test: Bonedd yr Arwyr and the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 28 (2010): 200-215.
- Editor, with Edyta Lehmann-Shriver and Kassandra Conley, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 27 (2010) and 28 (2010).
Selection of Conference Papers
“Picking a Fight with Daniel Huws: ‘Welsh’ Manuscripts and Lambeth Palace Library MS 1230,” Keynote Address at the 44th Harvard Celtic Colloquium, October 2025, Harvard University
“A Storm, a Harvest, and a Mischief of Mice: Locating the Context for a Poem by ‘Ricmarchus,’” delivered at the 42nd Harvard Celtic Colloquium, October 2023, Harvard University
“The Legacy of Caroline Script in Medieval Welsh Manuscripts,” delivered at Llawysgrifau Cymru, 800-1800 | Welsh Manuscripts, 800-1800 International Conference, 21 June 2022, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
“‘Let the Parisian island be witness’: Political Alliance and the Poem Trucidare Saxones in Thirteenth-Century Wales,” delivered at the 15th International Congress of Celtic Studies, 16 July 2015, University of Glasgow
“The Welsh at War: Poetry and Language during the Conflicts of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth and John of England,” presented in the session “Medieval Celtic Encounters with the Other” at the 2014 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America and the Medieval Association of the Pacific, April 2014, University of California-Los Angeles
“The Transmission of the Welsh-Latin ‘Lament’ of Rhygyfarch ap Sulien in British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.I., Part II,” presented in the session “Medieval Writing Materials: Texts, Transmission, and the Manifestation of Authority” (sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) at the 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 11 May 2013, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
“A Tradition in Transition: British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.I., Part II and Welsh Manuscript Production at the Turn of the Twelfth Century,” delivered at the 8th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop, 2 February 2013, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Sulien and Sons Strike Again? Some Observations on Lambeth Palace Library MS 1230,” delivered at the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, 10 March 2012, University of California-Los Angeles
“The Language of Diplomacy and Conquest in Eleventh-Century Wales,” delivered at the 127th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 7 January 2012, Seattle, Washington
“Separating Dream from Nightmare: The Manuscript Survival of the ‘Lament’ of Rhigyfarch ap Sulien,” delivered at the 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, 1 August 2011, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
“Conquest Compositions: The Writings of the Family of Sulien,” delivered in the Faculty of History Celtic Seminar, 24 February 2011, University of Oxford
“Famosa natus sum gente Britonum: Identity and Language in Medieval Wales,” delivered in the Faculty of History
Central Medieval Graduate Workshop, 4 November 2010, University of Cambridge
“Quicumque vult: Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Wales,” delivered at the Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Medieval Translator: In Principio Fuit Interpres), 27 July 2010, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
“Is scíth mo chrob ón scríbainn and the Language of Writing,” delivered at the Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, 13 March 2009, University of California-Berkeley
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