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Gale Owen-Crocker (born 16 January 1947) is an emeritus professor of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture and medieval dress and textiles at the University of Manchester, England, and director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Early life and education
Gale Frances Owen was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, and earned a first class degree with honours in English language and literature from Newcastle University in 1968 and a PhD with a thesis on Anglo-Saxon dress in 1971, also from Newcastle.
Career
After teaching at her former school and at Newcastle University while a student, Owen then took up a teaching position at the University of Manchester, where she remained until retiring in 2015. She became Gale Owen-Crocker upon her marriage in 1981. She is now emeritus professor and remains Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Owen-Crocker co-founded and edited the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. She was editor-in-chief for Brill's Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 (2012).
Owen-Crocker has published three monographs, and a collection of her papers on the Bayeux tapestry.