Edel, Doris

Doris Edel was born in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied Romance languages and literatures at the University of Zurich and Germanic and Celtic philology at the University of Utrecht. Her Ph.D. thesis Helden auf Freiersfüssen: ‘Tochmarc Emire’ und ‘Mal y kavas Kulhwch Olwen’ (1980) was published by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She taught Celtic languages and literatures at Utrecht University from 1971 until her retirement in October 2001, from July 1982 onwards as holder of the chair of Celtic.
Other books: Monniken, ridders en zeevaarders: opstellen aangeboden aan Maartje Draak (1988), Cultural Identity and Cultural Integration: Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages (1995), both redacted by her, and The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church (2001). She has published numerous articles on early Irish and Welsh literature and Irish culture, paying special attention to questions of cultural integration and the portrayal of the female. Her current research interest is the reception of early Irish narrative literature by the contemporaries.