Academic interests
My research primarily revolves around the the relationship between ethno-social identity and language use in medieval Europe.
More specifically, I investigate the North Sea cultural area from a historical sociolinguistic perspective, with an emphasis on interactions between its Germanic-speaking inhabitants.
By mapping potential variation in mutual intelligibility between early medieval Germanic speech communities via the application of modern theoretical sociolinguistic models and methodologies, my doctoral project seeks to reevaluate multilingual episodes in early medieval vernacular corpora.
Ultimately, my research seeks to contribute to our knowledge of cultural contact between the inhabitants of the North Sea cultural area during the early Middle Ages by reconceptualizing those relations as they appear in historical sources. In so doing, the my research simultaneously sheds light on medieval Germanic-speaking communities' perceptions of the ethnolinguistic relatedness between them.
Background
Bachelors Degree in Spanish Language and Culture, University of Florida (2018)
Bachelors Degree in Anthropology, University of Florida (2018)
MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, University of Iceland/University of Oslo (2023)
Awards
- Dean's Medal, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida
- Andersson Scholar Medal, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida
- King Olav Scholarship, Sons of Norway Foundation
- NORAM Scholarship, Norge-Amerika Foreningen
Positions held
- Research assistant for Project MULTI-WRITE
- Deputy representative for the Faculty of the Humanities' Doctoral Program executive board
- Deputy representative for the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages' executive board
- General member Collegium Medievale
- Representative for the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages' election board
Conference Experience
- Bradley, C. (2026, June) (Dialectometric Analysis and the Transformation of Qualitative Surveys of Phonological and Morphosyntactic Features among Early Germanic Languages) Oral presentation given at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Milan, Italy.
- Bradley, C. (2026, February) (Descendants of Germania and Beyond: A Dialectometric Geography of the Medieval North) Poster presentation given at the annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) - Tracing Patterns, Trier, Germany.
- Bradley, C. (2026, January) (Descendants of Germania and Beyond: A Dialectometric Geography of the Medieval North) Oral presentation given at the 6th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics, Madrid, Spain.
- Bradley, C. (2023, April) (Lost in Translation? An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Mutual Intelligibility Between Old Norse and Old English Speech Communities). Oral presentation given at the annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Bradley, C. (2022, March) (Within reach but beyond conquest: novel obstacles to Viking activity in Iberia). Poster presentation given at the annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, Reykjavik, Iceland.