Fairleigh Dickinson University
Faculty Member, Literature, Language, Writing, and Philosophy
Harvard University, Celtic Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor of Literature
College at Florham
About
I work in nearly all the medieval and modern Celtic languages and literatures (Irish, Breton, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic), and their neighbors Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Medieval Latin, and particularly Old French and Anglo-Norman. We need all these languages, and more, for a full understanding of the multilingualism and multiculturalism that have surrounded and shaped the literary history of Britain and Ireland from the Age of Bede to the twenty-first century. Within this framework, one of my priorities is to show what Celtic Studies has to offer other disciplines, particularly English and Comparative Literature.
My degrees are from:
- Princeton (A.B., French, 2003);
- Stumdi (intensive year course in Modern Breton, 2004);
- University College Dublin (Higher Diploma in Early Irish Language and Literature, 2005);
- Harvard (A.M., Celtic, 2007);
- Harvard (Ph.D., Celtic, 2011, with Medieval Studies as a secondary field).
I also hold a certificate in TESOL (Harvard Extension School, 2010).
I have the honor to serve as:
- President of the International Marie de France Society (http://lecygne.org);
- a member of the Advisory Committee of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society;
- a member of the executive of the MLA Discussion Group on Celtic Languages and Literatures;
- an Assistant Editor of the Charrette Project 2 (http://lancelot.baylor.edu), the successor to the Princeton Charrette Project;
- an Associate Editor of the Digby 23/Timaeus Project (http://timaeus.baylor.edu);
- and a member of the team translating the fourteenth-century French "Ovide moralisé" for Baylor University Press.
From 2008-11 I was an At-Large Member of the executive of the Celtic Studies Association of North America (CSANA) (see http://irishlanguage.nd.edu/programs/csana/homepage.htm).
I am delighted to answer questions about Celtic languages and literatures. Especially if you are (thinking about) teaching a Celtic-language text in translation, please be in touch if you think I can help.
Contact Information
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