Staff profile

• Old Norse literature (esp. mythological poetry)
• records of early English drama
• Durham medieval texts
• Old and Middle English poetry
• Durham Medieval Drama Group
• medieval acting style

• Medieval Studies

• 2013: Records of Early English Drama: The North East(£785055.00 from Arts and Humanities Research Council)

Available for media contact about:

• English Literature & Drama: medieval & early renaissance drama
• English Literature & Drama: Mythology (especially Norse)
• English Literature & Drama: Viking studies (especially literature)
• English Literature & Drama: late medieval poetry

Authored book

• McKinnell, J. (2005). Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer.
• McKinnell, J., Simek, Rudolf. & Düwel, Klaus. (2004). Runes, Magic and Religion. A Sourcebook. Vienna: Fassbaender.
• McKinnell JS (1998). The Sequence of the Sacrament at Durham. University of Teeside.
• McKinnell JS & ME Ruggerini (1994). Both One and Many: Essays on Change and Variety in Late Norse Heathenism. Rome: Calamo.

Chapter in book

• McKinnell, J. (2003). 'Encounters with Völur.'. In Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society. Ross, Margaret Clunies. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. The Viking Collection Studies in Northern civilization 14: 110-131.
• McKinnell, J (2002). ‘Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Hyndluljóð’. In Mythological Women. Studies in Memory of Lotte Motz. Rudolf Simek & Wilhelm Heizmann Wien: Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia 7: 265-290.
• John McKinnell (2001). Eddic Poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian Northern England. In Vikings and the Danelaw. Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress. James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch, & David Parsons Oxford: Oxbow. 327-344.
• McKinnell, J. (2001). 'Significant Gestures: Two Medieval Illustrations of Classical Theatre.'. In Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in honour of Meg Twycross. Carpenter, Sarah, King, Pamela & Meredith, Peter Leeds: University of Leeds, School of English. Leeds Studies in English, New Series 32: 289-320.
• John McKinnell (2001). Ögmundar þáttr: Versions, Structure and Ideology. In Sagnaheimur. Studies in Honour of Hermann Pálsson. Ásdís Egilsdóttir, & Rudolf Simek Vienna: Fassbaender. 6: 159-174.

Edited book

• McKinnell, John., Ashurst, David. & Kick, Donata. (2006). The Fantastic in Old Norse / Icelandic Literature. Sagas and the British Isles. Preprint Papers of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham and York, 6th-12th August, 2006. Durham: University of Durham, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Journal Article

• McKinnell, J. (2007). Wisdom from the dead the Ljóðatal section of Hávamál. Medium Ævum 76: 85-115.
• John McKinnell (2005). Hávamál B: A Poem of Sexual Intrigue. Saga-Book 29(2005): 83-114.
• McKinnell, J. (2001). ‘On Heiðr’. Saga-Book 25(4): 394-417.
• McKinnell JS (2000). The Medieval Pageant Wagons at York: their Orientation and Height. Early Theatre 3 : 79-104.
• McKinnell, J. (2000). The Medieval pageant waggons at York their orientation and height. Early theatre 3(1): 79-104.
• McKinnell JS (2000). Myth as Therapy: the Usefulness of Brymskvida. Medium Aevum 69(1): 1-20.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• John McKinnell (production director), & David Williams (video director) (2004). Hick Scorner. (video of play)
• Henry Medwall (2001). Nature (ca. 1495). (video of a play)