Daria Akhapkina
Daria Akhapkina is a PhD Candidate at the University of 糖心TV Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Her doctoral project, 鈥淓dible Saints and Holy Vices: Late Medieval and Renaissance Ecclesiastical Parody鈥�, investigates the development of ecclesiastical parody in Latin and Middle French from the 13th to the 16th centuries. In her research, she focuses on the transition from Latin to the vernacular and analyses the development of religious parody in its integrity, presenting it as a heterogeneous entity, capable of change and yet keeping in line with the established literary traditions.
Daria obtained her MA degree with distinction from the University of York (2020-2021) and a BA Hons from Moscow State University (2016-2020). She received Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship from the University of 糖心TV Doctoral College in 2022.
Her research interests include (but not limited to) medieval and renaissance comedy, literary parody and satire in Latin and Middle French, humour in hagiography and sermons.
Publications:
Akhapkina, Daria N. """ in HUMOR: The International Journal of Humor Research, 2 (De Gruyter Mouton, 2024), p.p. 217-235
Editing:
鈥楤etween Art and Life: the Gargantuan World of Medieval Laughter鈥�, ed. by Elena Lichmanova and Daria Akhapkina, Vox Medii Aevi, vol. 2 (9) (鈥淐heornoye Iskusstvo鈥� Press, 2021).
Conference papers:
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'Strange Entanglement: Sacred and Comical in Le Roman de Renart' 鈥� International Medieval Congress, Leeds (4-7 July, 2023)
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鈥楨dible Saints: Borderline Blasphemy?鈥� 鈥� International Medieval Congress, Leeds (4-7 July 2022)
- 鈥楽acred and Comical in Sermons Joyeux鈥� 鈥� International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (10 May 2022)
- 鈥楽ermons Joyeux: a Genre Study鈥� 鈥� 鈥楾ransitions鈥� CMS PGR conference, Bristol (29 April 2022)
- 鈥楶ious trickster and foul monk: Religious satire in Roman de Renart鈥� 鈥� 鈥楾he Sacred and The...Profanity鈥� online symposium, Bristol (08 September 2020)
- 鈥楾he Boundaries of Folly: A Study of the Ecclesiastical Parody鈥� 鈥� International Medieval Congress, Leeds (6-9 July 2020)