Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1955-1968
The Study School, Westmount, P.Q.
1968-1970
McGill University, Montreal, P.Q.: Honours Classics; transferred to Trinity College, University
of Toronto
1970-1973
Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont: General Arts B.A. 1972
English Language and Literature Specialist Degree 1973
Senior Essay Director: Dennis Duffy; Title: "The Last Tycoon of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of
Atmosphere and Heroism"
1973-1978
School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto
M.A., Dept. of Graduate English June 1974
PhD., Dept. of Graduate English December 1978
Thesis Director: †Angus F. Cameron; Thesis Title: The Influence of Glossing Tradition on the
Vocabulary of the Old English Metrical Psalter.
LANGUAGES:
English, French (speak, read, write, understand); German, Latin (read, understand).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
1987-8
Recording Secretary for Dept. of English Literature, Trent University;
1989-90
S. C. R. Committee, Otonabee College, Trent University;
1993-4
Computer Portfolio, Department of English Literature; Senior Common Room Committee,
Otonabee College; Trent Faculty Association Finance Committee, and Academic Counselling
Project, Trent University;
1994-6
Computer Portfolio, Dept. of English Literature; Academic Computing Services Committee,
Trent University;
1995-6
Executive Committee, Dept. of English Lit., recording secretary; Chair Search Committee, Dept.
of English Lit.;appointed Trent University's representative to the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities;
1996-7
Executive Committee, Dept. of English Lit., recording secretary: COED Committee; Faculty
Board Administration Review Committee, Trent University;
1997-8
Curriculum Committee, Executive Committee: Dept. of English Lit.; Academic Advisors'
Committee: Traill College; COED Committee: Trent University;
1998-9
Curriculum Committee, Executive Committee, joint portfolio for Honours Students: Dept. of
English Lit.; Academic Advisors' Committee, Traill College; COED Committee: Trent
University; appointed Trent University's representative to the Humanities and Social Sciences
Federation of Canada.
1999-2000
Curriculum Committee, Honours Students: Dept. of English Lit.; Academic Advisors'
Committee, Traill College; continuing representative for Trent to the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada.
POSITIONS HELD
1976-1979, 1982-1984
Senior English Department Instructor, Lakefield College School, Lakefield, Ontario K0L 2H0;
1984-1990
Instructor, Department of English Literature, Trent University;
1988-1989
Instructor, Department of English, York University, North York, Ontario;
1990-1993
S.S.H.R.C. Research Associate (private scholar holding award at Trent University);
1992-1993
Instructor, Department of English Literature, Trent University;
1992-1994
Research Associate (reconfirmed status);
1993-1995
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of English Literature, Trent University;
1995
Tenure granted, Department of English Literature, Trent University; promoted to Associate
Professor.
1999
Promoted to Full Professor.
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
1975
The Medieval Academy of America.
1985
Association of Canadian University Teachers of English (A.C.U.T.E.).
1987
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (I.S.A.S.).
1988
The Conference on Medievalism.
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici (Manchester/Leeds/Oxford/Cambridge).
1989
Illinois Medieval Association.
South-Eastern Medieval Association.
Medieval Association of the Midwest.
Henry Bradshaw Society.
Renaissance Society of America.
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture (S.A.S.L.C.: Cornell/Brigham Young/
S.U.N.Y.-Binghamton); volunteer contributor on Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos.
1990
Modern Language Association.
ANSAXNET: Telecommunications for Old English scholars (WVNVM.BITNET).
Royal Canadian Astronomical Society.
Canadian Friend of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
1991
S.A.S.L.C.: Liturgy. Invited by Richard Pfaff (general editor) to contribute chapter material on
Manuals and Exorcism for S.A.S.L.C.: Liturgy volume.
MEDTEXT-L: Medieval Text - Philology, Codicology and Technology (UIUCVMD.BITNET).
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
1992
CADORA (CAnadian Dressage Owners and Riders Association).
GERLING-L: Older Germanic Languages (to 1500), their linguistics and philology (UIUCVMD.
BITNET).
CEF (Canadian Equestrian Federation).
CHAUCER: Discussion Group for Chaucer Scholars (UNLINFO.UNL.EDU)
LITURGY: General Discussion Network for Liturgical Scholars (MAILBASE.AC.UK);
MEDEVLIT: (SIUCVNB.SIU.EDU): Discussion List for Medievalists 600-1500.
Charles Homer Haskins Society.
1993
Society of Canadian Medievalists.
ARTHUR-NET: Discussion List for Arthurian Studies (MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA)
1998
International Association of University Professors of English (elected)
1999
Society for Medieval Language and Linguistics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
-Pre-Conquest Liturgy and its relationship to Old English verse composition: lexicon, structure,
imagery and impulse; the development of semantics in Old and Middle English verse.
-Performance and Ritual within Anglo-Saxon Christian Society.
-Liturgical Manuscripts and Manuscript Contexts. Marginalia in pre-1200 manuscripts from
English scriptoria. Physical evidence, palaeography, spatialization as evidence in Anglo-Saxon
and Anglo-Norman manuscripts.
-Computing applications in Anglo-Saxon Studies.
-Tenth and Eleventh Century Studies.
-New directions in editing Old English verse, and electronic editing.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lakefield College School
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senior electives in 17th Century Metaphysical Poetry, Chaucer,
Twentieth-Century American Novel (Fitzgerald and Hemingway), Victorian Novel (Thomas
Hardy).
York University
History of the English Language (4000-level series).
Trent University
first year Studies in Drama, Studies in Heroism, Introduction to English Literature;
second year Milton, 17th Century Prose and Verse, Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean
Literature, 17th Century Literature and Belief;
third year Chaucer, Medieval Romance;
fourth year Advanced Chaucer, Studies in Old English, Advanced Medieval Romance. Reading
courses: History of the English Language (1994-5); A Bibliographical Review of the Figure of
Merlin, A.D. 600 - 1996; and C.S. Lewis: the Man and the Vision (1995-6).
Designed 200-level History of the English Language course (EN 230) for Department of English,
as a Medieval Category requirement. Redesigned EN 331 (Chaucer) and 332 (Medieval
Romance), 1994-6 and again 1998. Redesigned EN 431 (Studies in Old English) 1994, 1997,
1998, 1999.
Thesis Director for A. Novosel: "'Fals Cresseid' or 'False Criseyde'", 1993-4 Honours thesis; for
K. Adema, "Liminal Lessons Learned: A Study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", 1994-5
Honours thesis (submitted in part for publication); for Valerie Ansdell: "Women and Literacy in
Anglo-Saxon England" (working title), 1998-9 Honours thesis. Thesis Committee member (Joan
Vastokas, dir. [Anthropology]) for K. Adema, M.A. thesis (1996-9).
TEACHING INTERESTS
-Old English: cultural history, language, prose and verse;
-History of the English Language; the development of semantics in medieval literature;
-Middle English Language: s. xiv prose and verse, especially Chaucer; Medieval Romance and
its development; s. xv Chaucerians, especially Dunbar;
-Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Verse and Prose.
-17th Century Prose and Verse to 1660.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Advisory Board, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, May 1999.
Canadian Correspondent for I.A.U.P.E. Newsletter, May 1999.
External Assessor to History Department, Trent University, for Tenure Review Committee,
1998-9.
Trent Representative to Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, 1998 - .
Organizer of The Development of Theories about the Anglo-Saxon Aesthetic from Pre-Conquest
Art, Artifact and Text, May 1999, 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Book reviewer for University of Toronto Press, 1997-8.
Organizer of The Use of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England, May 1998, 33rd International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Assessor for Traditio (Fordham, New York), Spring, 1997.
Co-organizer (with William Schipper) of Text and Space, May 1997, 32nd International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Organizer of The Use of Translation in Anglo-Saxon England, May 1997, 32nd International
Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Liturgy Editor for ORB (On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies:
<http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/orb/mainpage.html>), May 1996.
Chair for T.C. Graham (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo), in Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries, May 1996, 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Assessor for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant Proposal, January 1996.
Reader for Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, eds, A Student Edition of Beowulf, (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1998).
Assessor for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant Proposal, January 1995.
Reader for Bruce Mitchell's An Invitation to Old English and to Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1994).
Co-organizer and Chair (with William Schipper) of Medieval Manuscript Margins, May 1994,
29th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Co-organizer (with William Schipper) of In the Margins, On the Margins, From the Margins,
May 1993, 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Co-organizer (with Katherine O'Keeffe) and Chair of Experiments in Editing Old English Verse,
May 1993, 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Contributor (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge team) to Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in
Microfiche Facsimile project (inception date May 1992).
International Association of University Professors of English Conference Committee, Trent
University, 1990-2, held August 1992.
Co-Organizer (with Patricia Hollahan) and Chair of S.A.S.L.C. Liturgy and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England, May 1992, 27th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Co-Organizer (with Katherine O'Keeffe) of Panel and Session on Experiments in Editing Old
English Verse, May 1992, 27th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, Michigan. Chair of Session and Panelist. A volume of the proceedings is planned.
Associate of The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, The Parker Library, Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. By invitation of Professor R.I. Page, Director, September 1991.
Co-Organizer (with Patricia Hollahan) and Chair of S.A.S.L.C. Old English Liturgical Poetry,
May 1990, 25th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
OTHER INTERESTS
Competitive equestrian training and performance, especially dressage and kür (musical freestyle).
HONOURS AND AWARDS
1970
University Scholar, McGill University
1973
Governor-General's Medalist, Trinity College, University of Toronto
1975
Canada Council Doctoral Fellow
1976
Canada Council Doctoral Fellow; Ontario Open Fellowship.
1977
Canada Council Doctoral Fellow
1990
Trent University: SSHRC Travel Grant
1990-1993
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant winner (private scholar) for the
Directory of Individual Liturgical Sources project, described below.
1993-1996
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant winner, for the Directory of Individual
Liturgical Sources project, described below.
1994
Nominated for Symons Teaching Award, Trent University
1995
Nominated for Symons Teaching Award, Trent University.
1996
Nominated for Symons Teaching Award, Trent University.
1997
Merit Increase Award, Trent University; awarded $2000 based on 1996 SSHRC application
status.
1998
Nominated for Symons Teaching Award, Trent University; elected to I.A.U.P.E. on grounds of
scholarship excellence.
1999
Nominated for Symons Teaching Award, Trent University
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
"In Closing: Doxology and Amen in Anglo-Saxon England", paper for I.S.A.S., University of
Notre Dame, August 1999.
"The Either/And of Christian Heroics: One Face of Anglo-Saxon Culture", invited paper for
Anglo-Saxon Styles 6: Style and Religious Texts session, May 1999, 34th International Congress
on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Assessing the Vernacular in Liturgical Texts from Anglo-Saxon England", paper for I.A.U.P.E.
Medieval Seminar, University of Sheffield (U.K.), August 1998.
"D.I.L.S. on the Web: Solutions, Jury-Riggings and Conundrums", invited paper for S.A.S.L.C.
New Tools, New Faces session, May 1998, 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"What is Old English doing in the Prayerbook?" in the Department of English Literature Honours
Colloquium, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 16 January, 1998.
"New Thoughts on Vernacular Private Prayer", in The Use of Translation in Anglo-Saxon
England, May 1997, 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI.
"Did God Speak Old English: The Enigma of the Vernacular in Certain Synactic Texts", invited
paper in Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Texts and the Cult of the Saints, 31st International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1996.
"Exorcism and Ordeal, Particularly by Bread and Cheese: The Psychology and Physiology of
Anglo-Saxon Justice", July 7, 1994, in Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Culture, 1st Annual
International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, U.K.
"Learning by Layout: What Liturgical Manuscript Margins Imply", invited paper, May 6, 1994,
in New Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Research, 29th International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"The Liturgical Marginalia of C.C.C.C. 41: a Reconsideration", invited paper at Seminar for The
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
December 1993.
"Eschatology in the Old English Liturgical Verse Canon", February 1993, Tenth Annual Illinois
Medieval Association Conference (Chicago, Illinois).
"Another Enchantment Used: The Wyf of Bath's Manipulation of the Loathly Lady Tale", invited
Colloquium Talk for Medieval Seminar at Department of English, University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario, 15 January, 1993.
"Computing and Old English Studies", paper for Humanities Research Day, Trent University
(Peterborough), 16 December, 1992.
"Computers and Pedagogy in Anglo-Saxon Studies", address for first C.O.E.D. Workshop
meeting, Trent University (Peterborough), 21 October, 1992.
"Respecting the Book: Old English Liturgical Poems in their Manuscripts", Three Papers on Old
English Language and Literature, I.A.U.P.E. Medieval Seminar at Carleton University, Ottawa
(30 July-1 August, 1992).
"Respecting the Book", position paper in Experiments in Editing Old English Verse II: Panel
Discussion, May 1992, 27th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
"The Old English Prayer Poem in BL Cotton Julius A.ii: More Oratio than Oblatio", February
1992, Ninth Annual Illinois Medieval Association Conference (Monmouth, Illinois).
"The Use of Foxbase+ for an Old English Liturgical Manuscript Database: Where No One Has
Gone Before", November 1991, Department of Computer Studies, Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario.
"Report on the D.I.L.S. Project", July 1991, Fifth Conference of the International Society of
Anglo-Saxonists (Stony Brook, New York).
"Latin Rubric, English Verse: Old English Liturgical Poems in their Manuscripts", May 1991, in
Old English II, 26th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
"Why Liturgy?", November 1990, Department of English, Texas A&M University, Bryan-College Station, Texas.
"Reconstructing the Old English Metrical Creed", May 1990, in S.A.S.L.C. Literary Sources II,
25th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Impulse and Process in Old English Liturgical Poetry", October 1989, Fifteenth Annual South-Eastern Medieval Association Conference (Rice University, Houston, Texas).
"The Kentish Hymn as 'Hymn'", September 1989, Fifth Annual Medieval Association of the
Midwest Conference (Newberry Library, Chicago).
"Hebrew and Hebraicum: the Presence of the Sefer Tehillim in Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter",
with Rev. D.R. Burrows, August 1989, Fourth Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (Durham, England).
"The Liturgical Background of the Kentish Hymn", May 1989, in S.A.S.L.C. Literary Sources II,
24th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Techne in the Kentish Hymn", February 1989, Sixth Annual Illinois Medieval Association
Conference (Champaign, Illinois).
"Psalm-Poem and Psalter-Gloss: Kentish Psalm 50 and the Psalter-Gloss Tradition", May 1988,
in Glosses and Glossaries, 23rd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, MI.
PUBLICATIONS (Peer Reviewed)
BOOKS
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile Issue. Liturgical Manuscripts, 2 volumes.
Forthcoming 1999-2000 from MRTS, Tempe, AZ.
New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse, co-edited with K. O'Brien O'Keeffe. Cambridge:
D.S. Brewer, 1998.
Psalm-Poem and Psalter-Glosses: The Latin and Old English Psalter-Text Background to
"Kentish Psalm 50". American University Studies Series VII: Theology and Religion. New York
and Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1991.
The Old English Metrical Psalter: An Annotated Set of Collation Lists with the Psalter-Glosses.
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities #189. New York: Garland, 1979.
ARTICLES
"'Either/And' as 'Style' in Anglo-Saxon Christian Verse", invited article forthcoming in George H.
Brown and Catherine Karkov, eds., Anglo-Saxon Styles, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institue
Publications, 2000.
"Anglo-Saxon Monastic Reform of the Tenth Century: Dunstan, Ethelwold, Swithun, Ælfric and
Oswald", invited article entry forthcoming in Wm Johnston, gen. ed., Encyclopedia of
Monasticism, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
"Assessing the Liturgical Canticles from the Old English Hexateuch Manuscripts", invited essay,
forthcoming in B.C. Withers and R. Barnhouse, eds., The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and
Approaches, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
"Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos", forthcoming in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed.
Frederick M. Biggs et al (MRTS, Tempe, AZ, 1999).
"Manuals and Exorcism", forthcoming in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: Liturgy,
ed. R.W. Pfaff, (MRTS, Tempe, AZ, 1999).
'Testimonial' in A Tribute to Ted Irving (Kalamazoo: Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research, 1999), 6-7.
'Report on Canada' to I.A.U.P.E. Newsletter, 1999..
"Looking at the Glosses in B.L. MS Additional 57337", Anglia 116 (1998), Heft 2, 215-222.
"Ut Honorificetur Deus in Omnibus: the Corsnæd Ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England", in The
Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe, ed. J.M. Hill
and M. Swan, Turnhout: Brepols, 1998, pp. 237-264.
"Respect for the Book: A Reconsideration of 'Form', 'Content' and 'Context' in Two Vernacular
Poems", in S. Keefer and K. O'Brien O'Keeffe, eds, New Approaches to Editing Old English
Poetry, D.S. Brewer (Cambridge), 1998, pp. 21-44.
"Another Pre-Conquest Inscription in Durham Cathedral Library MS A.II.17", Journal of the
Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland 13 (1997), 65.
"Margin as Archive: The Liturgical Marginalia of a Manuscript of the Old English Bede",
Traditio 52 (1996), 147-177.
"Hwær cwom mearh?: The Horse in Anglo-Saxon England", Journal of Medieval History 22.2
(June 1996), 115-134.
"The Lost Tale of Dylan in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi", reprinted in The Mabinogi: A
Book of Essays, ed. C.W. Sullivan, Garland Medieval Casebook Series, (New York: Garland
Publishing, 1995), pp. 79-98.
"Manuals", in The Liturgical Books of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R.W. Pfaff, Subsidia 23
(Kalamazoo, 1995), pp. 99-110.
"Computing in Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Representative Retrospective", Old English Newsletter
27.3 (1994), 31-34.
"Houyhnhnms on Malacandra: C.S. Lewis and Jonathan Swift", ANQ n.s. 7.4 (October, 1994),
209-214.
"D.I.L.S.: Directory of Individual Liturgical Sources", commissioned article for Gazette du Livre
Mediévale 23 (1993), 57-8.
"Respecting the Book: Editing Old English Liturgical Poems in their Manuscripts", Florilegium
XI (1992), 32-52.
"'Work-Writing' to Create the Fictional Portrait: Tolkien's Inclusion of Lewis in The Lord of
theRings", English Studies in Canada XVIII. 2 (June 1992), 181-198.
"The Ex Libris of the Regius Psalter", ANQ II.4 N.S. (October 1990), 155-159.
"A Monastic Echo in an Old English Charm", Leeds Studies in English XXI N.S. (1990), 71-80.
"Hebrew and the Hebraicum in late Anglo-Saxon England", Anglo-Saxon England 19 (1990),
67-80.
"The Lost Tale of Dylan in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi", Studia Celtica 24-25 (1989-90),
26-37.
"Techne in the Kentish Hymn", Essays in Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval
Association 6 (1989), 30-40.
"The Techne of the Christ I Poet", Neophilologus 62 (1978), 447-454.
"An Interesting Error in Ælfric's Dominica I in Adventu Domini", Neophilologus 60 (1976),
138-139.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Annual abstracts of scholarly papers (see below), Old English Newsletter, 1988-
"D.I.L.S. Information Processing Survey", Old English Newsletter 24.3 (Spring 1991), B 1-4.
"A Directory of Individual Liturgical Sources", Old English Newsletter 23.2 (Spring 1990), 19.
BOOK REVIEWS
F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg, eds., Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical
Guide (Washington: The Catholic University of America, 1996), ANQ 12, (Summer 1999), 62-65.
Anna A. Grotans and David W. Porter, eds. The Saint Gall Tractate: A Medieval Guide to
Rhetorical Syntax (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, Inc, 1995), ANQ n.s. 10.4 (Fall 1997), 43-44.
Margot Fassler, Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in twelfth-century
Paris.Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993), Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society XXXVIII. 1 (April 1996), 134-5.
Christine Franzen, The Tremulous Hand of Worcester (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) in ANQ
n.s. 7.2 (April 1994), 45-49.
Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English
Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) in ANQ n.s. 7.1 (January 1994), 44-48.
W.R.J. Barron and S.C. Weinberg, Layamon's Arthur (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989),
ANQ n.s. 6.2/3 (April/July 1993), 161-3.
Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, New Readings on Women in Old English
Literature (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990), ANQ n.s. 6.1 (January 1993),
42-47.
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) in ANQ n.s. 4.4 (October 1991), 196-8.
Bernard J. Muir, Leoð Six Old English Poems: A Handbook (New York: Gordon and Breach,
1989), in ANQ n.s. 4.3 (July, 1991), 144-6.
WORK IN PROGRESS
BOOKS AND PROJECTS
Now and Then: the Shape and Development of English (working title), its first part co-authored
with Henry Vandelinde. Textbook for English 230 (Department of English Literature, Trent
University). 1996, revised and expanded 1997-8 to include Old and Middle English entirely by
myself. Under consideration at University of Toronto Press, 1998-9 and presently under
authorial revision after readers' reports.
Directory of Individual Liturgical Sources in Old English Verse (D.I.L.S.): a catalogued
directory, and database, which will include historical notes on liturgical use in the Western
Church of the main elements from the Mass and Office standing as sources to pre-Conquest
vernacular verse writing. The database will have an appended text file providing all known Latin
or vernacular variants of each item. D.I.L.S. has been designed in two stages: the first (fully
funded through September 1990 -August 1992 and partially funded September 1992- August
1993 by a Research Grant from the Canadian S.S.H.R.C. will generatea preliminary database of
all manuscripts containing liturgical material that is pertinent to the project (LITMSS.DBF), and
cover Old English versions of these liturgical sources; the second and lengthier stage will cover
all Latin versions of the sources. Publication is planned systematically by liturgical element type,
with cantica first, tropes, antiphons and gradual elements next, and prayer/collect material
thereafter. D.I.L.S. is intended to augment the catalogues and handlists of liturgical materials
used in the Fontes Anglo-Saxonici project (Manchester/Leeds/Oxford/Cambridge). Completion
date of Volume 1, Canticles: 2002. SSHRC partial funding has supported this project between
1990 and 1997.
Critical edition of British Library MS Additional 57337, co-edited with Wm Schipper (Memorial
University, Nfld) for the Henry Bradshaw Society. Completion date 2002.
ARTICLES and NOTES
"Cross Liturgy: Object and Act" [working title], proposed position paper for the 2001
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
"Time in the Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England" [working title], invited paper (K. Jolly), 7th
International Medieval Conference at Leeds, July 2000.
"Signing the Symbol: the Cross in Anglo-Saxon Liturgy" [working title], invited paper (H.
Gittos), 'Ritual and Belief: the Rites of the Anglo-Saxon Church', Oxford, July 2000.
"Liturgical Verse as Sub-Genre" [working title], invited paper (Z. Thundy) in session honouring
John Leyerle for 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2000.
"Introduction" to volume on medieval marginalia, forthcoming in Florilegium, 2000.
"The Voice of Meditation in Old English Devotional Verse", invited essay for memorial volume
honouring Edward B. Irving Jr., eds. M Amodio and K. O'Brien O'Keeffe.
"The Scratch Glosses of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 146: the Samson Pontifical"
(working title), with T.C. Graham (Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo and Parker Library,
Cambridge) and C.P. Hall (Parker Library, Cambridge).
"Two Languages at Prayer: the Vernacular in the Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England" (working
title) with K. Jolly (Univ. of Manoa, Hawaii). Proposal sent to Boydell and Brewer on their
request.
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici entries for Kentish Hymn, Kentish Psalm 50, Gloria I, Gloria II, Creed,
Lord's Prayer II, Lord's Prayer III, Prayer poems (Cameron Numbers A25, 26, 21, 27, 23, 20, 22,
28).
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