Teaching
Old and Middle English History of the English Language
Research Interests
His research interests are Old English poetry (particularly poetics and prosody) and Middle English alliterative poetry.
Selected Publications
- Judith ed (Exeter 1997) 'The Old English Boethius' (Oxford 2008) [collaborative project)
- The Register of Divine Speech in Genesis A, Anglo-Saxon England 41 (2013)
- On the Lexical Property termed Rank in Old English Poetry and its later development, Notes and Queries 258 (2013)
- Old English Poetic Diction not in Old English Verse or Prose and the Curious Case of Aldhelms Five Athletes, Anglo-Saxon England 43, pp. 99-131 (2014)
- Reading Chaucer in 91勛圖厙 in the 1630s, co-authors Phil Knox and Will Poole, MediumAevum (forthcoming (2016))
- Alliterating Finites and the Origin of Rank in Old English Poetry, in Old English Philology: Studies in Honor of R.D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey, Anglo-Saxon Studies (forthcoming (2016))
- The Battle of Maldon: the Guile of the Vikings explained, Notes and Queries (forthcoming (2016))

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