In 1993, Love was elected a
fellow of
Robinson College, Cambridge. In 2000, she also became a
lecturer in the
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic,
University of Cambridge. In November 2018, it was announced that she would be the next
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, in succession to
Simon Keynes: she took up the chair on 1 October 2019. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy. Love is an editorial board member of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series for Anglo-Saxon Studies, an imprint of
De Gruyter, an editor for the
Oxford University Press imprint Oxford Medieval Texts, and the publications secretary for the
Henry Bradshaw Society. Love has published on Anglo-Latin medieval hagiography (saints' lives) and chronicle writing. With
Simon Keynes, she examined the
Vita Ædwardi regis, an 11th-century text, which gives an account of the reign of
King Edward the Confessor. In July 2024, Love was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. ==Personal life==