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Roy M. Liuzza

Selected Publications

  • Ed., Old English Literature: Critical Essays (New Haven: Yale UP, 2002)
  • ed., The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings (New York: Routledge, 2002)
  • vol. II, Notes and Glossary. EETS os 314 (Oxford: OUP, 2000)
  • Beowulf: a new verse translation (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2000)
  • The Old English Version of the Gospels, vol. I, Text and Introduction. EETS os 304 (Oxford: OUP, 1994).

Representative articles

  • "Beowulf: Monuments, Memory, History," Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature, ed. Elaine Treharne and David Johnson (Oxford UP, 2005), 91-108
  • "The Sphere of Life and Death: Time, Medicine and the Visual Imagination," Anglo-Saxon Literature: Papers for Michael Lapidge, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard (U of Toronto Press, 2005)
  • "What the Thunder Said: Anglo-Saxon Brontologies and the Problem of Sources," Review of English Studies 55 (2004), 1-23
  • "The Tower of Babel: The Wanderer and the Ruins of History," Studies in the Literary Imagination 36 (2003), 1-35
  • "Some Versions of Beowulf in the Nineteenth Century," English Studies 83 (2002), 281-95
  • "Anglo-Saxon Prognostics in Context: a Survey and Handlist of Manuscripts," Anglo-Saxon England 30 (2001), 181-230
  • "Old English Religious Prose," A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. Phil Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2001), 233-50
  • “On the Dating of Beowulf," Beowulf: Basic Readings, ed. Peter S. Baker. Basic Readings on Anglo-Saxon England 1 (New York: Garland, 1995; Rpt. Routledge, 2001), 281-302
  • "Scribal Habit: The Evidence of the Old English Gospels," Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century, ed. M. T. Swan and E. Treharne. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 2000), 143-65
  • "Who Read the Gospels in Old English?" Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson, ed. Peter S. Baker and Nicholas Howe (Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 1998), 3-24
  • "The Return of the Repressed: New and Old Theories in Old English Literary Criticism," Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Basic Readings on Anglo-Saxon England 3 (New York: Garland, 1994), 103-147.

Honors, Organizations & Grants

  • Editor, Old English Newsletter, 2003-
  • American Philosophical Society grant, 2003-4
  • member, Advisory Board, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 2002-
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996
  • American Philosophical Society grant, 1991
  • American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1990
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grants, 1989, 1993
  • Fulbright Fellowship (Exeter College, Oxford), 1986.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roy M. Liuzza

Contact Information

Roy M. Liuzza
Professor
Department of English
216 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6970
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: rliuzza@utk.edu
Home Page: http://web.utk.edu/~rliuzza/

Education

B.A., Northeast Louisiana University
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Research

Medieval Literature―Old English