Simone Celine Marshall is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in 15th century literature, in particular the afterlives of Chaucer's poems.

Marshall found that anonymity was a literary convention used by marginalised people, including women, to express dissent.

[5] Marshall was an associate investigator on a 2011 Marsden grant "The machinery of transcendence: unattended moments in the Modernist tradition", which was led by Professor Chris Ackerley.

Community groups, schools, artists and writers were invited to submit a page for the book about what Otago means to them.

[6][7] Marshall practices and teaches calligraphy, to assist students in understanding the skills required to produce the manuscripts they are studying.