Paul E. Szarmach

PESz with Helen Damico (L) and Roberta Frank (R) at ISAS 99	PESz with colleagues from the Medieval English Studies Association of Korea [MESAK] at the 2003 Congress: Yejung Choi, Ji-Soo Kang, Young-Bae Park, PESz, Gwanghyun Shynne, and Insung Lee
Helen Damico, Thomas Noble, Mary Tyler Moore (in figura), PESz (red tie), and George H. Brown in Minneapolis (2003)	Jacek Fisiak, Liliana Sikorska, Michiko Ogura, PESz, Young-Bae Park at the Third Medieval English Studies Symposium, November 2004, Poznan (Photo courtesy of Dr. Park)
PESz with Thomas Seiler, Larry Syndergaard, and Lindy Judy at the Fortieth Congress	PESz with Otto Gründler, Geraldine Carville (eighth Gründler Prize winner), and President Judith Bailey, Photo: Neil Rankin
"Anybody got a comb?"	PESz with former Binghamton students Robert Schichler and Helene Scheck
Outgoing MAA, Incoming FSU; Outgoing WMU, Incoming MAA. From the 41st Congress (2006)	The Grand Pooh-Bah says Good-Bye. From the 41st Congress (2006)

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Education

1963 - A.B., Canisius College
1964 - A.M., Harvard University
1968 - Ph.D., Harvard University

Dissertation: "Selected Vercelli Homilies"

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS

• SUNY Summer Research Fellowships: 1971 ($1,600); 1972 ($1,475); 1974 ($1,600); 1977 ($1,850)

• Study Fellowship from the Society for Religion in Higher Education, 1972-73 ($8,200)

• Research Associate, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1972-73

• With Bernard S. Levy, Conversations in the Disciplines Grant, 1975 ($2,000)

• With Daniel Williman, NEH Program Grant for a B.A. in Medieval Studies, 1977-79 ($199,970)

• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977

• Course Development Grant under NEH Program Grant, 1978 ($2,000)

• Visiting Associate, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Easter Term, 1978

• Mellon Fellowships for Research at the Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University, June 1979 ($630); June 1992 ($320)

• SUNY Research Foundation, Grant for a Conference on All-SUNY programs in Medieval Studies, 1979 ($1,210)

• With H. C. Kaplan, Travel Grants to Poland from the International Research and Exchanges Board, 1980 ($2,138) and also 1987 ($1,000)

• With R. Oggins et al., Grants for a Microform Archive: from Vice-President's Curriculum Development Fund, 1980 ($1,000); from SUNY-Binghamton Foundation, 1980 ($525)

• Fellowship from the National Humanities Center, Fall, 1981 ($6,000); concurrent with the Title F Research Leave 1981-82

• Travel Grant from the American Philosophical Society, Summer 1982 ($1,340)

• NEH Division of Research programs, Grant for a critical edition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis, 1982-84 ($32,708); travel supplement, 1984 ($1,680)

• With H. C. Kaplan, G. L. Houghton, et al., NEH Division of Research, grant for a Catalog of Polish Medieval Architecture, Architectural Sculpture, and Wall Paintings, 1982-84 ($45,000 outright; $150,000 authorized)

• With committee, NEH Division of Research Programs, Grant for a Symposium on the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture, 1983 ($9,942)

• Grant for the acquisition of microfilm for personal research from local Summer Faculty Research Support Program, 1983 ($475)

• NEH Division of Education Programs, Grant for an Institute on Anglo-Saxon England, June 24-August 2, 1985 ($93,682)

• With R. Oggins and R. T. Morewedge, Grant for the CEMERS Microform Archive from the Vice President's Curriculum Development Program, 1985 ($1,000)

• With Committee, NEH Division of Research Programs, Grant for Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, 1987-89 ($147,913, with a $5,000 gift/match authorized); NEH renewal, 1990-92 ($158,226)

• NEH Division of Education Programs, Grant for an Institute on Arthur of Avalon: Medieval and Modern, June 27-August 5, 1998 ($119,024)

• NEH Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Travel to Collections, "An Edition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis," Summer 1989 ($750); "An Edition of Alcuin's De Ratione Animæ," Summer 1993 ($750)

• Study Visit, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1993 (3300 DM)

• NEH Division of Research Programs, Grant for An Edition of Alcuin's De Ratione Animæ, July 1, 1993 through December 31, 1994 ($49,000)

• NEH Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 1993-94 ($26,000)

• Mini-Grant for "SASLC: A Continuation," from campus awards program, Summer 1993 ($1,000)

• NEH Division of Research Programs, Travel Grants for participation in "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile," directed by A. N. Doane and P. Pulsiano, 1993-96 ($4,000)

• NEH Division of Fellowships and Seminars, summer seminar on "New and Old Approaches to Beowulf and Old English Literature," June 19-July 28, 1995 ($76,189); held at Western Michigan univ.

• With T. C. Graham, NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Old English in Its Manuscript Context," July 14-August 22, 1997 ($89,107): Western Michigan Univ. and Parker Library, Cambridge, England

• NEH Division of Research and Education, summer institute on "Anglo-Saxon England," June 21-July 30, 1999 ($163,501): held at Western Michigan Univ.

• Travel Grant from the Soros Foundation to support lectures at Loránd Eötcös Univ., Budapest, Hungary and Peter Pasmany Univ., February 25-march 4, 2000 (ca. $1,200)

• Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term 2000 [=Fall] in connection with a Professional Development leave from Western Michigan Univ.

• With T. C. Graham, NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts," June 25-August 3, 2001 ($128,298): Western Michigan Univ. and the British Library

• Co-investigator with Robert Berkhofer (Principal Investigator) and Miranda Haddock (co-investigator), Teaching and Learning with Technology (WMU Internal Grant), "Canterbury and St. Denis: An Interdisciplinary Online Approach to Two Churches at the Intersection of Medieval Culture," June 1, 2002-May 31, 2003 ($24,927 direct)

• NEH Division of Research and Education, summer institute on "Anglo-Saxon England," July 5-August 13, 2004 ($183,272): held at Trinity College, Cambridge in collaboration with the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

• Distinguished Faculty Scholar (2003)

• Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (awarded November 26, 2004)

• NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England," July 3-August 11, 2006 ($148,990): in cooperation with the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Parker Library)

• Fellow of the Medieval Academy (2006)

• Robert L. Kindrick CARA Service Award (2006)

• NEH Division of Research and Education, Scholarly Editions Grants, for A Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College 25, co-PI with Thomas N. Hall; team includes D. Porter, R. Rushforth, K. Kiernan, and B. Muir; July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, $100,000

COURSES TAUGHT

AT SUNY-BINGHAMTON (new numbering eff. F 86)

Literature & Composition 101 and 102 (F 70, Sp 71)
English 130/230-W, Medieval Literature (Sp 71, F 73, Sp 84, Sp 93)
English 140/235, Chaucer (F70, F 71, Sp 72, F 74, Sp 75, F 76, F 80, Sp 81, Sp 83, Sp 85, Sp 89)
English 152, History of the English Language (Sp 74, Sp 77)
English 170A/331, Old English Poetry (F 73, F 74, Sp 76, F 79, F 82, F 83, F 88)
English 182/453, Arthurian Myth (Sp 74, F 75, Sp 79, F 84, F 88)
English 300, Introduction to the English Language (F 71, Sp 72)
English 310/510, Old English (F73, F 74, F 79, F 82, F 83, F 88, F 90, Sp 92)
English 311, Middle English (Sp 80)
English U-330B, Medieval Fiction (Sp 90)
English 535, Chaucer [grad course] (F 89)
English 550F, Beowulf [grad course] (Sp 91)
English 562A, Malory and the Arthurian Tradition [grad course] (F 91)
English 593E, Anglo-Saxon Women and Their Texts [grad course] (Sp 93)
Participant, Medieval Studies 295 (F 71, F 75)
Medieval Studies 195B, Northern Narrative (Sp 77)
Medieval Studies 195J, Anglo-Saxon Civilization (F 78)
Medieval Studies 195V, The Vikings (F80)
Medieval Studies 195J, London in the Reign of Richard II (Sp 85)
Medieval Studies 495D/501C, Age of Chaucer (Sp 90)
Medieval Studies 501H, Ælfric of Eynsham (Sp 92)

AT WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (new 4-digit numbering effective Fall 2005)

Medieval 500, The Book in Its Forms (F 97) [co-taught with Dr. Thomas Amos]
Medieval 600, Advanced Old English (W 98)
Medieval 600, Alfred 1100 (W 99) [Newberry Library Consortium Course]
English 5300, Medieval Literature (Sp 06)
English 555, Chaucer (Sp 05)
English 610, Beowulf (F 95); (Sp 03) [co-taught with Dr. Jana Schulman]
English 610, Malory and the Arthurian Tradition (F 96)
English 610, Medieval Literature Survey (F 98) [co-taught with Prof. Chauncey D. Wood]
English 621, Anglo-Saxon Women and Their Texts (W 00)
English 676, Old English (Sp 96, F 97, W 01)
Medieval 600, Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England (Sp 04) [Newberry Library Consortium Course]

Publications

Book-Length:

• ed. with introd., in collaboration with Bernard S. Levy, Acta 4: The Fourteenth Century (Binghamton, N.Y.: CEMERS, 1977), 135pp.

• ed. with introd., Aspects of Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1978), xxii + 208pp.

• ed. with introd., in collaboration with Bernard F. Huppé, The Old English Homily and Its Backgrounds (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1978), 267pp.

• critical ed. with introd. and notes, Vercelli Homilies IX-XXIII, Toronto Old English Series 5 (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1981), xxiii + 101pp.

• ed. with introd. in collaboration with Bernard S. Levy, The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981), xv + 205pp.

• ed. with Bernard S. Levy, Mediaevalia 6 (1980 [1982]), Festschrift for Bernard F. Huppé, 356pp.

• ed. with introd., An Introduction to the Mediaeval Mystics of Europe (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1984), 369pp.

• ed. with introd., Studies in Earlier Old English Prose (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1986), 420pp.

• ed. with foreword asst. by V. Oggins, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture, Studies in Medieval Culture 20 (Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute, 1986), 457 pp.

• ed. with Bernard Rosenthal, Medievalism in American Culture: Special Studies, Studies in Medievalism, Conference Papers vol. 1 (1987), xiv + 131pp.

• ed. with introd. in collaboration with Bernard Rosenthal, Medievalism in American Culture, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 55 (1989), x + 301pp.

• ed. with F. Biggs, T. Hill, asst. K. Hammond, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 74 (1990), xli + 256pp.

• ed. with D. G. Scragg, The Editing of Old English (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1994), ix + 317pp.

• ed. with introd., Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996), xvii + 390pp.

• ed. with J. Rosenthal, The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture, Studies in Medieval Culture 40 (1997), xx + 488pp. [Proceedings of 1991 ISAS Conference]

• gen. ed. with M. T. Tavormina and J. T. Rosenthal and with editorial committee C. Karkov, P. Lefferts, and E. P. McLachlan, Medieval England: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998), lxiv + 882 pp. [Named an Outstanding Reference Source for 1999 by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association]

• ed. Old English Prose in the series Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 5 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), xvii + 552 pp. [eleven classic reprints and five new articles]

• coordinating ed., with Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and E. Gordon Whatley, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, vol. 1, (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001), xlvi + 548 pp. [wrote Foreword]

  In Progress:
  

• Edition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis and De Ratione Animæ, projected for Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis

• "Ælfric in His Context" (a book on Ælfric's Sermones Catholici and its Latin backgrounds)

• ed.with Jana Schulman, “Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance”

• ed. “Cotton Tiberius A. iii Group” volume of microfiches with introductions for Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile

Periodicals and Series:

• Editor, Old English Newsletter, 10 (1976)-29 (1996); Publisher, 30-39 (1996-2006)

• Editor, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia 9 (1983), ii + 24pp.

• With Christopher Kleinhenz, General Editor of "Garland Studies in Medieval Literature" (formerly Garland Monographs) [series now ended]

• General Editor, SUNY Press Medieval Studies (1987-)

• Olim Member, Editorial Board: Mediaevalia, Studies in Short Fiction

• With Carl T. Berkhout and Joseph B. Trahern, General Editor of "Basic Readings on Anglo-Saxon England" [series ended 2002 as a publication of Garland and its successors]

• With Christian Zacher, General Editor of "Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time" [series ended 2001]

• General Editor, Mediaevalia, volumes 15-19

• Member, Editorial Board, Anglo-Saxon England (2004-)

Articles and Chapters:

• "Caesarius of Arles and the Vercelli Homilies," Traditio, 26 (1970), 315-23

• "Three Renderings of the Jonah Story: An Investigation of Narrative Technique in Old English Homilies," Anglo-Saxon England, 1 (1972), 183-92

• "Vercelli Homily XX," Mediaeval Studies, 35 (1973), 1-26
  ----"Revisions for Vercelli Homily XX," Mediaeval Studies, 36 (1974), 493-94

• "Anglo-Saxon Letters in the Eleventh Century," Acta, 1 (1974), 1-14

• "The Vercelli Homilies: Style and Structure," in The Old English Homily and Its Backgrounds (as above), pp. 241-67

• "The Scribe of the Vercelli Book," Studia Neophilologica, 51 (1979), 179-88

• "Another Old English Translation of Gregory the Great's Dialogues?" English Studies, 62 (1981), 97-109

• "A Preliminary Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis," Manuscripta, 25 (1981), 131-40

• "The Meaning of Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care," Mediaevalia 6 (1980 [1982]), 57-86

• "The Earlier Homily: De Parasceve," in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose (as above), pp. 381-99

• "Ælfric, the Prose Vision, and the Dream of the Rood," in Studies in Honour of René Derolez, ed. A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen (Gent, 1987), pp. 592-602 [rpt. in Old English Prose, as above]

• "Ælfric as Exegete: Approaches and Examples in the Study of the Sermones Catholici," for Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture, ed. H. Damico and P. Gallacher (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1989), pp. 237-47

• "Ælfric's Women Saints: Eugenia," in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature: A Collection of Critical Articles, ed. H. Damico and A.H. Olsen (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 146-57

• "The Latin Tradition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis, cap. xxvii-xxxv, with Special Reference to Vercelli Homily XX," Mediaevalia, 12 (1989 for 1986), 13-41

• "Visio Pacis: Jerusalem and Its Meanings," in Typology and English Medieval Literature, ed. H. Keenan, Georgia State Literary Studies, 7 (1992), pp. 71-87

• "Cotton Tiberius A.iii arts. 26 and 27," in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss...," ed. Michael Korhammer, et al. (Woodbridge, 1992), pp. 29-42

• "The (Sub-) Genre of the Battle of Maldon," The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact, ed. J. Cooper (London, 1993), pp. 43-61

• "St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite," in Holy Men and Holy Women...(listed above), pp. 353-65

• "The Recovery of Texts," in Reading Old English Texts, ed. K. O'B. O'Keeffe, (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), pp. 124-45

• "Alfred, Boethius, and the Four Cardinal Virtues," in Alfred the Wise, ed. J. Roberts and J. Nelson (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997), pp. 223-35

• "Abbot Ælfric and His Rhythmical Prose in the Computer Age," in New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse, ed. S. L. Keefer and K. O'B. O'Keeffe, (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998), pp. 95-108

• "Æðelflæd: mise en page," in Words and Works: Essays in Honor of Professor Fred C. Robinson, ed. N. Howe and P. Baker (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 105-26

• "Anthem: Auden's Cædmon's Hymn," for Studies in Medievalism, ed. T. A. Shippey and R. Utz, (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 329-40

• "A Preface to Alcuin's De Ratione Animae, Mainly Textual," in The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways...: Festschrift in Honor of János M. Bak, ed. Balás Nagy and Marcell Sebök (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), pp. 397-408

• "A Return to Cotton Tiberius A.iii, art. 24," in Text and Gloss: Studies in Insular Language and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer, ed. Helen Conrad-O'Briain, Anne Marie D'Arcy, and V. John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. 166-81

• "Alcuin, Alfred and the Soul," for Manuscript, Narrative, and Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton, ed. Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis (Bucknell Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 127-48

• "Ælfric and the Problem of Women," in Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, ed. Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, King's College London Medieval Studies 17 (London, 2000), pp. 571-90

• "The Timaeus in Old English," in Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, ed. C.J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, Costerus n.s. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi b.v., 2001), pp. 255-67

• "Pembroke College, arts. 93-95," in Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J.E. Cross, ed. Thomas N. Hall with assistance from Thomas D. Hill and Charles D. Wright (Morgantown: West Virginia Univ. Press, 2002), pp. 295-325

• "Ælfric Revises: the Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author," in Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B Irving, Jr., ed. Mark Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003), pp. 38-61

• "Editions of Alfred: the Wages of Un-Influence," in Early Medieval English: Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 252 (Tempe, 2002), ed. Elaine Treharn and Susan Rosser, pp. 135-49

• "Alfred's Soliloquies in Cotton Tiberius A.iii (art. 9g, fols 50v-51v)," in Latin Learning and English Lore, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard (Toronto, Buffalo and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 153-79

• "'The Poetic Turn of Mind' of the Translator of the OE Bede" in Anglo-Saxons: Studies Presented to Cyril Roy Hart, ed. Simon Keynes and Alfred P. Smyth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 54-68

• "An Apologia for the Metres of Boethius," in Naked Wordes in Englissh, ed. Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, Medieval English Mirror 2 (Frankfurt am Mainz, etc.: Peter Lang, 2005), pp.107-36
  
  

At Press:

• "Æðeldreda in the OE Bede," for a festschrift in honor of Helen Damico, ed. Catherine Karkov and Nancy van Deusen

• "Vercelli Homily XIV and the Homiliary of Paul the Deacon," for a festschrift in honor of Joyce M. Hill, TBP Leeds Studies in English, ed. Mary Swan

Completed:

• "Alfred's Nero," in "Sources of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies" [=Thomas Hill festschrift] ed. Charles D. Wright et al.

• "The Vercelli Prose and Anglo-Saxon Literary History" [Vercelli Book Symposium, 2002]

• "Ælfric's Judith," for a collection of essays on the Old Testament and Old English ed. Michael Fox and M. Sharma

• "Sweet's Prose Beowulf," for a collection of essays, "Beowulf at Kalamazoo," ed. Jana Schulman and Paul E. Szarmach

  In Progress:

• "Anglo-Saxon Texts in Search of the Beginning," TBP in the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library [2004 Toller Lecture]

• "Alcuin Comes Home," [ISAS 2005 conference paper] for Anglo-Saxon England

• other articles in planning

Notes, Shorter Articles, Reviews, etc.

• "Bede on Aldhelm: nitidus sermone," American Notes and Queries, 9 (1970-71), 147-48

• "Two Notes on `Patience,'" Notes and Queries, n.s. xviii (1971), 125-27

• Review of Michael D. Cherniss, Ingeld and Christ, Notre Dame English Journal, 9 (Spring, 1974), 74-75

• "Ms Junius 85 f. 2r," English Language Notes, 14 (1977), 241-46

• Eight entries for Artemis' Lexicon des Mittelalters (Zurich, 1977)

• Review of A. D. Healey, ed., The Old English Vision of St. Paul, Speculum, 55 (1980), 580-81

• Review of Ingvar Carlson ed., The Pastoral Care, 2: ff. 25 /4-end, Speculum, 56 (1981), 449-50

• Review of Sarah Larratt Keefer, The Old English Metrical Psalter, Speculum, 56 (1981), 618-19

• Review of Anglo-Saxon England 9 in Modern Language Review, 58 (1984), 891-92

• Review of David E. Yerkes, ed., The Old English Life of St. Machutus, Speculum, 60 (1985), 1038-40

• "Two Notes on the Vercelli Homilies," English Language Notes, 24 (1986), 3-7

• Review of Allen J. Frantzen, The Literature of Penance in Anglo-Saxon England, Speculum, 63 (1988), 392-94

• Review of Stanley B. Greenfield, Daniel G. Calder, with Michael Lapidge, A New Critical History of Old English Literature, Speculum, 64 (1989), 173-74

• "Old English Prose," ANQ, 3 no. 2 n.s. (1990), 56-59

• Review of James E. Cross, Cambridge Pembroke College MS. 25: A Carolingian Sermonary Used by Anglo-Saxon Preachers, Speculum, 66 (1991), 143-45

• Review of H.M. Banting, ed., Two Anglo-Saxon Pontificals, Notes and Queries, n.s. 38 (1991), 91-92

• Review of Mary-Catherine Bodden, ed. and tr., The Old English Finding of the True Cross, Peritia, 8 (1994), 231-33

• Review of Gillian Clark, Augustine: The Confessions, Notes and Queries, n.s. 41 (December, 1994), 535-36

• Review of Robert A. Taylor, James P. Burke, et al. ed., The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle, Letters in Canada 1993, University of Toronto Quarterly, 64.1 (Winter, 1994), 142-44

• Review of Susan Irvine, ed., Old English Homilies from MS Bodley 343, Speculum, 71 (1996), 161-62

• Review of Bernhard Bischoff and Michael Lapidge, Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian, The Journal of Religion, 76 (1996), 631-32

• Review of Beate Günzel, ed., Ælfwine's Prayerbook, Speculum, 72 (1997), 100-01

• Review of Michael Lapdige, ed., Archbishop Theodore and Jane Stevenson, The 'Laterculus Malalianus' and the School of Archibishop Theodore, The Journal of Religion, 77 (1997), 461-63

• Review of F. C. Robinson and E. G. Stanley, eds., Old English Poetic Texts from Many Sources: A Comprehensive Collection, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 23, Peritia, 11 (1997), 409-11

• Review of David Williams, The Function of the Monster in Medieval Thought and Literature, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 20 (1998), 343-46

• Review of Richard Newhauser, The Treatises on Vices and Virtues in Latin and in the Vernacular, Typologies des Sources du Moyen Âge 68 (1993), Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 41 (1998), 311-13 [tr. into French by Prof. Martine Sauret]

• "Medieval Studies and Medievalism: Emergent Relations," The Year's Work in Medievalism 10 (1998), 5-8 [1995 MLA Presentation]

• Contribution to "A Panel Discussion," in The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Roger B. Dahood, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), 8-9

• Review of Robert Bjork and John D. Niles, Beowulf: A Handbook, and George Jack, ed. Beowulf: A Student Edition, JEGP 99 (2000), 440-42

• Review of Peter Clemoes, ed., Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: The First Series. Text, Speculum 76 (2001), 128-30

• Review of Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, eds., Beowulf; An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts, Journal of English Linguistics

• Review of Christopher A. Jones, Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham, Speculum 77 (2002), 200-01

• "Meter 20: Context Bereft," ANQ, 15 (2002), 28-34 [="Old English Issue: Textual Scholarship," guest ed. J.R. Hall]
  

• Review of Mechthild Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform, Speculum 77 (2002), 537-39

• Review of Clare A. Lees, Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England, The Journal of Religion, 82 (2002), 454-56

• with Larry Swain, review of David Burnley, Old English: A Multimedia History, TMR, .02.09.38

• Review of Birgit Ehrsberger, Die angelsäschsischen Handschriften in den Pariser Bibliotheken, Speculum

• Review of Patrick O'Neill, ed., King Alfred's Old English Prose Translation of the First Fifty Psalms, Speculum

• "Dunstan" in Supplement to The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. William C. Jordan (New York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons, 2004) s.v.

• Five entries for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Electronic Publishing:

• ed. Edmund of East Anglia, website through Old English Online Editions, publ. 2003 at
  http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/edmund/... and continuing

Other Professional Writing

• Description of the SUNY-Binghamton English Department's program in The Teaching Apprentice Program in Language and Literature, ed. Joseph Gibaldi and James V. Mirollo (New York: Modern Language Association, 1981), pp. 74-90

• With H. C. Kaplan, Description of IREX Grant Proposal in A Casebook of Grant Proposals in the Humanities, ed. William Coleman et al. (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1982), pp. 67-76

• "Medieval Associations," in Medieval Studies in North America, ed. C. Kleinhenz and F. Gentry (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1982), pp. 81-96

• "Arthurian Archaeology," in Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, eds. Maureen C. Fries and Jeanie Watson (New York, 1992), pp. 135-38

• "CARA: Mainly Yesterday, Some Tomorrow," CARA Newsletter, 17 (2002), 1-6

• "A Letter from the Director of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University," in Truth as Gift: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt, ed. Marsha Dutton, Daniel M. LaCorte, and Paul Lockey (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2004), pp. xxiii-xxiv

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Papers Presented:

• "Three Renderings..." -- a version of the article published in Anglo-Saxon England, presented at the Sixth Conference on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May, 1971

• "The Vercelli Homilies: Style and Structure" -- a version of the article written for the 1978 collection mentioned above, presented at the Eighth Conference at Western Michigan University in April, 1973

• "The Meaning of Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care" -- a version of the article for the Huppé festschrift presented at the Second Ohio Medieval Conference in October, 1975

• "The Old English Prose Vision" -- a version of the article in the Derolez Festschrift presented at the Eleventh Conference at Western Michigan University, May, 1976

• "The Scribe of the Vercelli Book" -- a version of the article for SN (as above) presented at the Third St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, October, 1976

• "The Vita Martini in Old English" -- presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast MLA, Pittsburgh, April, 1977

• "Another Old English Translation of Gregory The Great's Dialogues?" -- a version of the article for ES (as above) presented at the Fifth St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, October, 1978

• "Medieval Associations" -- a version of the article as mentioned above presented at the Fourteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1979

• "Gregory The Great's Theory of Preaching in the Moralia" -- presented at the Fourth Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University in September, 1979

• "Closure in Old English Poems" -- presented at the Fifteenth International Congress at Western Michigan University, May, 1980

• "Vercelli Homily I" -- a version of the article written for the 1986 collection listed above presented at the Sixteenth International Congress at Western Michigan University, May, 1981

• Participant in a panel discussion on Scholarly Publishing sponsored by CARA at the Seventeenth International Congress at Western Michigan University, May, 1982

• Panel Participant with paper on textual criticism, "Sources and Resources of Anglo-Saxon Studies: Problems in Manuscript Research and in Research Aids," MLA, 1982

• "Towards an Edition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis" -- presented at the Tenth St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, October, 1983; revised edition at First Drafts Conference, Oxford, August, 1984

• "Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis and the Vernacular Tradition" -- presented at the Twentieth International Congress at Western Michigan University, May, 1985; revised version presented at the Fourth Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Durham England, August 10, 1989

• "Ælfric as Exegete: Approaches and Examples in the Study of the Sermones Catholici" -- a version of the essay in Damico-Gallacher presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America, University of New Mexico, April 17-19, 1986

• "Ælfric's Women Saints: Eugenia" -- a version of the essay in Damico-Olsen presented a the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Arizona, March 5, 1988

• "St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite" -- a version of the essay for the 1992 collection presented at the annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Grand Canyon, April 22, 1989; revised version presented in absentia at the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, Institute for Advanced Study, December 4, 1993

• "Ælfric and Implied Narrative" -- presented at the Zurich Medieval Studies Seminar, August 18, 1989

• "The Template Course" -- presented at the Modern Language Asociation Annual Meeting, Washington, December 27, 1989 [NEH-sponsored session on 1988 Institute]

• "Ælfric and Implied Narrative" (further developed from paper as above)-- presented at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, November 15, 1990

• "Æðeldreda" -- presented at "Sex and Gender in Early English Literature," forum at UC-Berkeley, March 4-5, 1991

• "The (Sub-)Genre of the Battle of Maldon -- presented at the Maldon Millennium Conference, August 6, 1991 and published in the Conference volume as above

• "Abbot Ælfric and His Rhythmical Prose in the Computer Age" -- a version of the essay in Keefer-O'Keeffe, presented at the Twenty-Seventh International Congress, Western Michigan University, May 8, 1992

• "Anglo-Saxonist Attitudes (and Dilemmas): School Texts in the Current Debates" -- presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New York City, December 28, 1992

• "Ælfric and the Problem of Women" -- presented at teh Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, December 30, 1994

• Panel Participant "Medievalism, New Medievalism, Medieval Studies: Contested Territory or Common Ground? A Roundtable" Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 29, 1995

• "Æðelflæd: mise en page," a version of the article listed above for the Robinson festschrift, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 15, 1997

• "Alfred, Boethius, and the Four Cardinal Virtues," a version of the article listed above, presented at the meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, July 8, 1997

• "The Timaeus in Old English," presented at the Eleventh New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, March 13, 1998

• Panel Participant: "Medievalists at Home: Managing Domestic Politics," thinkpiece and discussion presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America, Washington DC [Georgetown Univ., main host], April 9, 1999

• A Featured Speaker at the Middle English Studies Association of Korea, Seoul Korea, November 20, 1999: "The Disappearing Woman in Old English Literature"

• "Editions of Alfred: the Wages of Un-Influence," Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 28, 1999

• A Featured Speaker at the Middle English Studies Association of Korea, Seoul Korea, November 20, 1999 "The Disappearing Woman in Old English Literature"

• The Edward Moritz Jr. Lecture in English History, Kalamazoo College, February 24, 2000: "The Disappearing Woman in Old English Literature"

• "Alfred's Soliloquies in Cotton Tiberius A.iii [art. 9g, fols 50v-51v]" -a version of the essay now in progress presented at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2001

• "Ælfric Revises: the Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author," be-ennial meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Helsinki, August 10, 2001

• A Featured Speaker at the Middle English Studies Association of Korea, November 17, 2001 "Ælfric Revises: the Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author" [as previous]

• "Alfred's Nero," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 28, 2003; expanded for the Oxford Boethius Seminar, July 24, 2003

• Panel Participant, "Glodbalization of Medieval Studies," Annual International Congress of Medieval Studies, Leeds, England, July 17, 2003

• "Chaucer and the 'Art' Vita: With Special Reference to the Second Nun's Tale," Revisiting Chaucer and Christianity, July 22, 2003

• Invited Speaker, "What’s the Subject Now?: A Medievalist’s View" [plenary lecture], Studies in Medievalism Conference, St. Louis Univ., October 17, 2003

• Invited Speaker, "Anglo-Saxon Texts in Search of the Beginning" [2004 Toller Lecture], Manchester Univ., March 1, 2004

• "Alcuin Comes Home," bi-ennial meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Munich, August 1, 2005

Organizing Professional Activities:

• Coordinator, Ælfric and His Age -- seminar at the annual meeting of the MLA 1972 and 1973

• Conference Coordinator, Jewish Culture in the Middle Ages, (CEMERS) Conference, May, 1974

• Chairman, Malory Section, Ninth Conference on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May, 1974

• Chairman, Old English Section, Tenth Conference on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May, 1975

• Coordinator, Review of Greenfield's "Interpretation" -- seminar at the annual meeting of the MLA, 1975

• With Bernard S. Levy, Coordinator, "The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century," Conversations in the Disciplines, in October, 1975

• Ex-officio Member, Old English Division Executive Committee, Modern Language Association, 1976-96

• Program Secretary of the MLA Old English Division, 1976 and Program Chairman, 1977

• With Bernard S Levy, Coordinator, "The Fourteenth Century," Acta Conference, March, 1977

• Chairman, Bede Section, First Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, September, 1976

• Chairman, Medieval and Renaissance Literature Section, Second Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, September, 1977

• Chairman, Comparative Literature Section (Saints' Lives), Northeast MLA, Hartford, March, 1979

• Coordinator, Conference on All-SUNY Programs in Medieval Studies, April, 1979

• Member, Executive committee of Centers and Regional Associations (sub-committee of the Mediaeval Academy), 1980-83; Chairman, Sub-committee for CARA Visiting Professorship (developed an NEH grant with Dumbarton Oaks for a Visiting Byzantinist, c. $82,000 (1984-86); Chairman of CARA, 1987-93

• Chairman and Organizer, Special Session on The Prose of Alfred's Reign, Annual Meeting of the MLA, 1979

• Member, Advisory Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (1983-95); First Vice President 1988 and 1989; President 1990 and 1991

• Principal Organizer, Symposium on the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture (nine sessions), Eighteenth Congress, Western Michigan University, may, 1983; also a major organizer for the Second (1984), Third (1985), Fourth (1986), Fifth (1987), Sixth (1988), Seventh (1989), Eighth (1990), Ninth (1991), Tenth (1992), Eleventh (1993), Twelfth(1994) and Thirteenth (1995) Symposia

• With Bernard Rosenthal, Co-Coordinator, 18th Annual CEMERS Conference, "Medievalism and American Culture" 1984

• A Principal Organizer, "Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture" (an internal project in source work)

• Session organizer, "An NEH Institute on Arthur of Avalon: Medieval to Modern," Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, December 27, 1989

• Member, "Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England" (an international project to create research tools for study, as the title indicates; Joyce Hill, Chair)

• Member, Editorial Board, Studies in Short Fiction, 1988-2004

• Member, Board of Stewards, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Univ. of Rochester, 1989-

• With Joel Rosenthal, Principal Organizer (as President) of the Fifth Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, July 22-26, 1991, at SUNY Stony Brook

• Vice-Chair, Old English Section, 1992 International Association of University Professors of English, Trent University, August 1992

• Member, Administrative and Editorial Board, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, 1991-

• Member, Advisory Board, Corpus of Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts, 1992-

• Member, Advisory Board, Studies in Medievalism, 2001-

• Trustee, International Boethius Society, 2002- , and President, 2004-

• Member, Advisory Board, Medieval English Studies (Korea), 2002-

• Member, Morton S. Cohen Award Selection Committee, Modern Language Association, 2002-05; Chair, 2004-05

• Member, Committee on Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association, 2003-07; Co-Chair, 2005-07

• Member, Board of Consulting Editors, Medieval English Mirror [series]

Lectures and Talks:

• State Univ. College at Buffalo (Sp 77, Sp 84): Cornell Univ. (Sp 77); Univ. of Sheffield (Sp 78); Warsaw Polytechnic (Sp 80); Amherst College (2x, Sp 84); Institut für Englische Philologie, Univ. of Munich (Sum 84); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (2x, F 85); Univ. of Manchester, England (F 87); Univ. of Oregon (Sp 91); Trinity Univ. (Sp 92); Institute for Advanced Study (Sp 94); Princeton Univ. (Sp 94); Univ. of Notre Dame (F 94); Loránd Eötcös Univ. (F 95); Four Korean Universities (F 99); Loránd Eötvös Univ. (Budapest) and Peter Pasmany Univ. (W 00); Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge Univ. (F 00); the Medieval Seminar, Oxford Univ. (F 00); Dept. of English, King's College London (F 00); Troy State University (Sp 04)

• Radio Program on "Ælfric" recorded for Soundings, a series sponsored by the National Humanities Center (1981)

• Featured Speaker on Teaching, 1984 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Orientation

• Invited Speaker, Thirteenth New England Medieval Conference, October 25-27, 1987 (at University of New Hampshire)

• Invited Participant, Colloquium on Teaching Old English Literature, Department of English, Loránd Eötcös Univ., Budapest, September 1995

• Plenary Speaker at the Fall meeting of the Medieval English Studies Association of Korea, Seoul (F 99)

• Invited Lecturer, Edward Moritz Jr. Lecture in British History, Kalamazoo College, February, 2000

• Invited Speaker, Teachers of Old English in the British Isles [TOEBI] meeting at Nottingham Univ. (F 00)

• Keynote Speaker (one of two), "Revisiting the Style and Structure of the Vercelli Homilies," Workshop on the Vercelli Book, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, September 14-15, 2002 [Andy Orchard, Convener]

• Invited Speaker, "CARA: Yesterday and Tomorrow," Fall Meeting of Centers and Regional Associations [=CARA], October 4, 2002, Pennsylvania State University [Vicki Ziegler, organizer]

• Plenary Speaker, Studies in Medievalism Conference, St. Louis Univ., October 2003

• Toller Lecturer, Manchester Univ., March 2004

• Plenary Speaker, Medieval English Studies Symposium, Poznan, November 2004

• Featured Speaker, "Ælfric's Judith," Medieval and Renaissance Group, WMU, October 14, 2005

Reviewing and Consulting:

a) Manuscripts and Proposals

For: SUNY Press, Indiana Univ. Press, W.W. Norton, Princeton Univ. Press, Speculum Anniversary Monographs, Allegorica, Assays, Mediaevalia, Speculum, Studies in Short Fiction, Style, TEAMS, Allegorica, PMLA, Peter Lang Publishing, Oklahoma Univ. Press, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Binghamton and later Arizona State), Illinois Univ. Press, Edinburh Univ. Press, Univ. of Florida Press; Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; Univ. of Notre Dame Press

For: NEH, various Divisions; Drexel University Research Scholars Awards Programs; CUNY-PSC Research Award Program; the National Humanities Center

b) Other: Panelist, NEH Basic Research Program (February, 1984); Panelist, NEH Division of Education and Research, "Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources..." (December, 2004)

External reviewer, Five-Year Program Review, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (1987)
External Examiner, Dissertations at the Univ. of Ottawa (1990), Univ. of Sydney (1990), Univ. of Toronto (1998)
CARA Consultant on Medieval Studies Program at Univ. of Oregon (1991), Trinity University (1992)
Consultant, American Library Association traveling panel exhibition, "The Many Realms of King Arthur" (1994-97)
External Consultant on Medieval Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest (1995)
External Consultant on Interdisciplinary Programs, Purdue University (1997)

Personnel Cases:

• Many in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and New Zealand

SERVICE:

at State University of New York at Binghamton, 1970-94:

• Various and many departmental, college, and university committees

Dissertations, Examinations, Guidance:

• Guidance and Dissertation Committees:
  Chairman, dissertation committee (three completed: Bonnie Steeber [1982], Robert L. Schichler [1987], Virginia Blanton-Whetsell [1998])
  Member (various)

• Co-Grader for area and specialization exams: 1979-80, F 84, F 88

at Western Michigan University (since 1995)

Master's Thesis Committees:

Chairman, Completed Theses:


Kevin Glick (1998); Amy Stout (1999); Joshua Westgard (1999); Melodie Harris (2000)

Member, Completed Theses:

William Hamilton (1999) Hilary Fox (2005)

Doctoral Committees:

Completed Dissertations:

Committee Chair:

WMU: Rhonda McDaniel, "Male and Female He Created Them: Ælfric's Lives of Saints and Patristic Gender Theory" (August 2003)

External Member:

Wayne State University: Member, Richard Scott Nokes, "The Old English Charms and Their Manuscript Context: British Library Royal 12 D.xvii and British Library Harley 585" (successfully defended November 15, 2002)




Dissertation in Progress:

Central European University: Ruta Šileikyte, "King Alfred's Boethius: The Reception of Neoplatonic Thought in the Old English Philosophical Translation"