Janina Ramirez

Janina Ramirez (born 1980) is a cultural, literary and linguistic historian. She studied English literature at Oxford and completed a master’s degree and a doctorate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, focusing on the art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. She taught in Winchester and Warwick and worked as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as a BBC presenter and published numerous scholarly articles and nonfiction books. Her book Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages Through the Women Written Out of It (2022) became a bestseller.