Education:
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1970 (“The ‘In Eched’ Method of Narration in Chaucer’s Troilus”); M.A., CWRU, 1968; NDEA Fellow 1967-1970; A.B., Fairfield University, 1967
Teaching:
Professor, University of Kentucky, 1981-2005; Associate Professor, UK, 1975-81; Assistant Professor, UK, 1970-75; University Fellow, Case Western Reserve, 1969-70.
Administration:
Chair, Department of English, University of Kentucky, 1986-90
Selected Publications:
Books
Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript, revised paperback edition, with Foreword by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe (British Library Publications and University of Michigan Press, 1997); Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1981)
The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1986)
Electronic Edition
Editor, The Electronic Beowulf, with Ionut Emil Iacob, 2-CD set Version 2.0, British Library Publications, 2004. Editor, The Electronic Beowulf, with Andrew Prescott, Elizabeth Solopova, C.J. Yuan, David French, Michael Ellis, and Linda Cantara. 2-CD set published by British Library Publications and The University of Michigan Press (1999)
Electronic editions-in-progress
Some Articles
“The nathwylc Scribe and the nathwylc Text of Beowulf.” Forthcoming in Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico, ed. Catherine E. Karkov (Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008.
“Introduction,” with Antonette diPaolo Healey, Making Sense: Constructing Meaning in Early English, eds. Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan. Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto 2007), vii-x. .
“Remodeling Alfred’s Boethius with the tol ond andweorc of Edition Production Technology (EPT),” Making Sense: Constructing Meaning in Early English, eds. Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan. Publications of the Dictionary of Old English 7, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto 2007), 72-115. A lengthy excerpt describing the EPT tools is available online at the Electronic Boethius website. For more advanced image-based electronic editing tools, see the EPPT website at http://www.eppt.org/eppt .
“Digital Facsimiles in Editing: Some Guidelines for Editors of Image-based Electronic Editions.” Electronic Textual Editing, ed. John Unsworth, Lou Burnard, and Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe (New York: Modern Language Association, 2006), pp. 256-262.
“The Source of the Napier Fragment of Alfred’s Boethius,” Inaugural issue of the Digital Medievalist 1.1. Spring 2005.
“The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning,” with Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Alex Dekhtyar, and Dorothy Carr Porter, with assistance of Kenneth Hawley, Sandeep Bodapati, and Ionut Emil Iacob. Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2005), pp. 1-20.
“Odd Couples in Ælfric’s Julian and Basilissa in British Library Cotton MS Otho B. x.” Beatus vir: Studies in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano. eds. Kirsten Wolf and A.N. Doane. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS), 2005, 85-106.
“The Reappearances of St. Basil the Great in British Library MS Cotton Otho B. x.” With Brent Seales and James Griffioen. Computers and the Humanities 36:1 (February 2002), 7-26.
“The Legacy of Wiglaf: Saving a Wounded Beowulf.” The Beowulf Reader (formerly Beowulf: Basic Readings, 1995), ed. Peter S. Baker. Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England I. New York: Garland 2000, 195-218.
“King Alfred’s Burnt Boethius,” The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture, eds. George Bornstein and Theresa Lynn Tinkle (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1998), 7-32.
“Reading Cædmon’s Hymn with Someone Else’s Glosses,” Old English Literature: Critical Essays (Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 103-124. Edited by Roy Liuzza. Reprinted from Representations 32 (Fall 1990), 157-174.
Selected Consulting and Advising
Senior Advisor for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Electronic Editions Advisory Board, The Medieval Academy of America; Advisory Board, Society for Early English & Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET), Digital Library Tools Project, University of Illinois; Digital Image Archive for Medieval Music (DIAMM), Oxford; The Alfredian Boethius Project, Oxford; Australian Academy of the Humanities; Australian Research Council; The Arts & Humanities Research Board, United Kingdom; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Science Foundation DELOS (European) Network of Excellence for Digital Imagery and NSF Working Group on “Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials 2002;” International Advisory Board, Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research.
Recent Awards and Honors
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT), 2006-07; elected Lifetime Honorary Member, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (2005); Honorary Life Member, Medieval Academy of America; National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research grant (2002-2006); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (2002-2004); National Science Foundation ITR grant (2003-2005, with Alexander Dekhtyar and Jerzy W.I. Jaromczyk); 2001 Beatrice White Prize from the English Association (United Kingdom) for Electronic Beowulf; appointed T. Marshall Hahn Sr. Professor of Arts and Sciences, 2002; National Science Foundation DLI2 grant (1999-2003, with Brent Seales and James Griffioen); IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant (1998); elected Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky (1998/99).