Dorothy Bray

B.A. (McGill); Ph.D. (Edinburgh – Celtic Studies), Associate Professor
Medieval studies, Specialising in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon;Early Irish hagiography; Heroic tradition; Celtic folklore and mythology; Women saints and women’s spirituality.
McMaster University, University of Durham.
- FCAC Bourse de recherche, British Council Personal Grant.
‘The Vita Prima of St. Brigit: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Composition.’ Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Edgar M. Slotkin. Ed. Joseph F. Nagy. CSANA Yearbook 8-9 (Colgate University Press), 1-15.
‘Ireland’s Other Apostle: Cogitosus’ Saint Brigit.’ Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 59 (Summer 2010): 55-70.
‘Further on White Red-Eared Cows in Fact and Fiction.’ Peritia 19 (2005): 239-255.
‘Miracles and Wonders in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints’ in Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults, ed. Jane Cartwright (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002): 136-147.
‘Malediction and Benediction in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints.’ Studia Celtica 36 (2002): 47-58. [published March 2003]
‘The Study of Folk-Motifs in Early Irish Hagiography: Problems of Approach, and Rewards at Hand.’ In Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars, ed. John Carey, Máire Herbert, Pádraig Ó Riain (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001): 268-277.
"Suckling at the Breast of Christ: a spiritual lesson in an Irish hagiographical motif." Peritia 14 (2000): 282-296.
"The Manly Spirit of St. Monenna," in Celtic Connections, Vol. 1, ed. R. Black et al. (East Linton, 1999): 171-181.
A List of Motifs in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints (1993).
"Secunda Brigida: Saint Ita of Killeedy and Brigidine Tradition", in Celtic Languages and Celtic People (1992): 27-38.
"Heroic Tradition in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints," in Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic Studies (1988): 261-71.
"The Image of St. Brigit in the Early Irish Church," Études Celtiques 24 (1987): 209-215.
"Allegory in the Navigatio Sancti Brendani," Viator 26 (1995): 1-10.
Early Irish hagiography and folklore; Celtic and Anglo-Saxon literature and folklore; Heroic tradition; Women saints of early Ireland (St Brigid of Kildare).