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Thomas J. Heffernan

Selected Publications

  • Ed., The Medieval European Liturgy (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2000), with Dr. Ann Matter of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Sacred Biography: Saints and Their Biographies in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 1988)
  • Ed., The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1985)
  • ed., Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1981-.

Representative articles

  • "The Liturgy and the Literature of Saints' Lives," in The Medieval European Liturgy, eds. Thomas J. Heffernan and Ann Matter (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, May 2000), 45 pp.
  • "Hippolyte Delehaye: A Life," Dictionary of Medieval Scholarship, Helen Damico, ed. (New York: Garland, 1998), 1-23
  • "Philology and Authorship in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis," in Traditio: Studies in Ancient & Medieval History, Thought and Religion (1996), 315-325
  • "History Becomes Heilsgeschichte : The Principle of the Paradigm in the Early-Christian Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis," in The Ring of Words in Medieval Literature, ed. Ulrich Goebel (Mellen, 1994)
  • "'God hathe schewed for him many grete miracules': Political Canonization and the Miracula of Simon de Montfort," in The Art of Middle English Narrative, ed. Robert E. Edwards (Boydell and Brewer, 1994)
  • "Dangerous Sympathies: Political Commentary in the South English Legendary, " in The South English Legendary: A Critical Reassessment, ed. Klaus P. Jankofsky (Francke Verlag, 1992), 1-18
  • "Orthodoxies Redux: The Northern Homily Cycle in the Vernon Manuscript and Its Textual Affiliation," in Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall (Boydell and Brewer: Cambridge, 1990), 155-167
  • "Aspects of the Chaucerian Apocrypha: Animadversions on William Thynne's Edition of the Plowman's Tale," in Chaucer Traditions, eds., R. Morse and B. Windeatt (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 75-89
  • "The Authorship of the Northern Homily Cycle: The Liturgical Affiliation of the Sunday Gospel Pericopes as a Test," in Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion, 41 (1985), 359-82
  • "The Middle English Sermon, 1150-1450," in Middle English Prose (Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 1984), 177-207
  • "The Virgin as an Aid to Salvation in Fifteenth Century English and Latin Verses," Medium Aevum, (1984), 229-238
  • "Who Wrote Huntington Library Manuscript HM 129? A Study of Manuscript Affiliation," Manuscripta, XXVII, No. 2 (1983), 101-107
  • "The Rediscovery of the Bute Manuscript of the Northern Homily Cycle," Scriptorium, 35 (1981), 71-94
  • "On the Importance of Schrifte: A Middle English Poem on Penance," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 82, No. 4 (1981), 362-67
  • "The Use of the Phrase plenus amoris in Scribal Colophons," Notes & Queries, 28, No. 6 (1981), 493-94
  • "Unpublished Middle English Verses on the 'Three Sorrowful Things,'" Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 83, No. 1 (1982), 31-33
  • "The Affiliation of Houghton MS 1032 and the Northern Homily Cycle: A Disclaimer," Notes & Queries, 28, No. 4 (1981), 301-03
  • "Four Middle English Religious Lyrics from the Thirteenth Century," Mediaeval Studies, 42 (1981), 131-150
  • "Additional Evidence for a More Precise Date of the 'South English Legendary,'" in Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 35 (1979), 372-79
  • "The Middle English Lives of Saints Alexis, Eustace, and Oswald in the Northern Homily Cycle," Cambridge University Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre, 1977; "The Textual Tradition of the South English Legendary," review essay in Medium Aevum, 1977
  • "A Middle English Poem on Lovedays," Chaucer Review, 10 (1976), 172-85
  • "An Analysis of the Narrative Motifs in the Legend of St. Eustace," Medievalia Et Humanistica; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, NS 6 (Cambridge University Press, 1975), 68-69
  • "On the Use of Computers in Medicine: Personal Experiences and Critique," The Jewish Memorial Hospital Bulletin, 16 (1972), 1-27
  • "Computer Management of Clinical Information: Capture and Retrieval of Clinical Orthopedic Data by Means of the Variablefield-length Format," Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 48 (1972), 1014-32.

Organizations & Associates

  • Ed., The Medieval European Liturgy, 2nd ed., (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2005), with Dr. Ann Matter of the University of Pennsylvania
  • National Endowment for the Humanities 1993
  • National Endowment for the Humanities 1991
  • National Humanities Center, Fellow, 1986-87
  • Fellowship to the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, summer 1979; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1978-80
  • Chairperson of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Tennessee, 1978
  • American Philological Society, 1977
  • The Van Courtland Elliot Prize for the Most Distinguished Article in Medieval Studies by a Young North American Scholar for 1977
  • Editor, Tennessee Studies in Literature, 1976-
  • Medieval Academy of America Fellowship in Medieval Latin Paleography at Harvard University, 1975
  • Emmanuel College Grant for Scholarly Research, 1973 and 1974.

Honors

  • University of Tennessee Creative Achievement Award 2005
  • Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award, 1996.


Thomas J. Heffernan

Contact Information

Thomas J. Heffernan
Kenneth Curry Professor
Department of English
1111 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6968
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: tomheffernan@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Manhattan College
M.A., New York University
Ph.D., Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Research

Medieval Literature,
English Linguistics