ABOUT
BIO
“You can always find me with my nose in the books, up to my elbows in flour and with my head in the clouds.”
Tamara is a medievalist from Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2025 she is set to obtain her Research Master’s Degree in History at the University of Groningen where she also completed her Bachelor of Arts in Older English Literature.
Her academic research often focusses on imagined communities and the shaping of cultural identities through literature and visual arts.
A proud jack of all trades, she has written on a variety of topics and times with a specialization in medieval Scottish literature and history.
Since 2023 she has been involved in the development and design of Monstrum, an educational boardgame about medieval animals.
In 2024 received a nomination for the Young Historian of the Year award.
From exploring where folklore and religion meet to bringing old stories to life, everything she does comes back to how people use stories to make sense of the world around them.
TALKS & EVENTS
INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS LEEDS 2025
'The Other in the Isles: the interplay between chivalry and alterity in chronicles on the Bruce Invasion of 1315-1318' Session 1535: Literature and History in the late Medieval British Isles. IMC Leeds, 10 July 2025.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES DAY 2024
'Speaking through Beaks: The significance of talking birds explored through literary analysis of David Lyndsey’s 1530 satirical poem Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo.' Medieval Studies Day 2024: Pe(s)ts to Parchment. Multidisciplinary Research on Animals in the Middle Ages. Ghent, 8 November 2024.
LETTERENFESTIVAL 2024
“Monstrum: Playing with Medieval Ecologies | Monstrum: Spelen met Middeleeuwse Natuur.”
Arts Festival, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, 21 September 2024.
HISTORICIDAGEN 2024
Student Assistent to Convenor Sven Gins at the workshop 'Ook getest op historici: Testsessie historische gezelschapsspellen.' Maastricht University, August 2024.
CODING MEDIEVAL WORLDS 4
The Monstrous Female or a Female Monstrosity? Coding Medieval Worlds. Exilian & University of Vienna, 18 February 2024.