Robert D. Fulk
Robert D. Fulk (Email; phone: 812-855-1943)
Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English
Adjunct Professor Germanic Studies
Ph.D., English, University of Iowa, 1982
M.F.A., Fiction, The Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa, 1976
M.A., English, University of Chicago, 1974
B.A., English, Oakland University, 1973
R.D. Fulk is a medievalist and a linguist, specializing in Germanic (especially Old English and Old Icelandic) and Celtic languages and literatures, the history of the English language, and comparative Indo-European linguistics. Some particular areas of research are Old and Middle English dialectology, textual criticism, phonological and morphological change, and early Germanic metrics. With Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles he has edited Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (Toronto, 2008; click here for the press listing, here for supplementary materials), and with Christopher M. Cain he wrote A History of Old English Literature (Oxford, 2002; click here for the press listing). Soon to appear in Skaldic Poetry in the Scandinavian Middle Ages, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross, Edith Marold, Guðrún Nordal, Diana Whaley, Tarrin Wills, and Kari Ellen Gade, 9 vols. (Turnhout, 2007-) are editions of works by Þormóðr Bersason Kolbrúnarskáld, Haraldr hárfagri, Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Þorbjörn hornklofi, Gunnhildr konungamóðir, Hákon góði, Eyvindr Finnsson skaldaspillir, Þorkell klyppr Þórðarson, Sighvatr Þorðarson, as well as some anonymous compositions. Click here for the Web site. With Stefan Jurasinski, Professor Fulk recently completed an edition of the Old English Canons of Theodore, to be published by the Early English Text Society in 2011, as well as grammars of Old and Middle English. He is currently at work on completing the second volume of Richard M. Hogg's Grammar of Old English, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. He teaches particularly in the areas of Old and Middle English language and literature, as well as medieval Irish and Welsh language and literature. He is Executive Editor for Language and Literature of the journal Anglo-Saxon (click here), published at the University of Aberdeen.
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RECENT COURSES
L711: Old English Literature
L710: Beowulf
G603: Celtic Languages and Literatures (Old Irish, Middle Welsh)
G602: Middle English
G601: Old English
G405: Studies in English Language
G302: Structure of Modern English
E301: Literatures in English to 1600
L202: Literary Interpretation
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Anglian Dialect Features in Old English Anonymous Homiletic Literature: A Survey, with Preliminary Findings.” In Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change, ed. Susan Fitzmaurice and Donka Minkova, 81–100. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
“English as a Germanic Language.” In A Companion to the History of the English Language, ed. Haruko Momma and Michael Matto, 142–9. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles, edd. Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4th ed. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2008.
“Some Emendations and Non-Emendations in Beowulf (Verses 600a, 976a, 1585b, 1667b, 1740a, 2525b, 2771a, and 3060a).” Studies in Philology 104 (2007), 159–74.
“Archaisms and Neologisms in the Language of Beowulf.” In Studies in the History of the English Language III: Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English, ed. Christopher M. Cain and Geoffrey Russom, 267–87. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
“Old English Meter and Oral Tradition: Three Issues Bearing on Poetic Chronology.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology106 (2007), 304–24.
“The Etymology and Significance of Beowulf’s Name.” Anglo-Saxon 1 (2007), 109–36.
David N. Dumville, R.D. Fulk, and Andrew Reynolds, edd. Anglo-Saxon 1 (2007). Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen.
“The Textual Criticism of Frederick Klaeber’s Beowulf.” In Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey, ed. Andrew Wawn, 131–53. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.
“Old English þa ‘now that’ and the Integrity of Beowulf.” English Studies 88 (2007) 623–31.
“Some Lexical Problems in the Interpretation and Textual Criticism of Beowulf (Verses 414a, 845b, 986a, 1320a, 1375a).” Studia Neophilologica 77 (2005), 145–55. [Appeared in 2006.]
“The Origin of the Numbered Sections in Beowulf and in Other Old English Poems.” Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006), 91–109.
“Six Cruces in Beowulf (Lines 31, 83, 404, 445, 1198, and 3074–5).” In Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, I, ed. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 349–67. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
“Afloat in Semantic Space: Old English sund and the Nature of Beowulf’s Exploit with Breca.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005), 457–74.
“Six Cruces in the Finnsburg Fragment and Episode.” Medium Ævum 74 (2005), 191–204.
“Old English weorc: Where Does It Hurt? South of the Thames.” ANQ 17.2 (2004), 6–12. [Response to Roberta Frank.]
“Old English Poetry and the Alliterative Revival: On Geoffrey Russom’s ‘Evolution of Middle English Alliterative Meter’.” In Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations, ed. Anne Curzan and Kimberley Emmons, 305–12. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
“Male Homoeroticism in the Old English Canons of Theodore.” In Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder, ed. Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa M. Weston, 1–34. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
“The Name of Offa’s Queen: Beowulf 1931–2.” Anglia 122 (2004), 614–39.
“Old English werg-, wyrg- ‘Accursed’.” Historische Sprachforschung 117 (2004), 315–22.
“Some Contested Readings in the Beowulf Manuscript.” Review of English Studies, n.s. 56 [no. 224] (2004), 192–223.
“Old English Poetic Form.” The Literary Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Clark. [An on-line publication, at http://www.litencyc.com/; pub. 2003.]
“On Argumentation in Old English Philology, with Particular Reference to the Editing and Dating of Beowulf.” Anglo-Saxon England 32 (2003), 1–26.
R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain. A History of Old English Literature. With a chapter on saints’ legends by Rachel S. Anderson. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. Corrected paperback edition, 2004.
R.D. Fulk and Joseph Harris. “Beowulf’s Name.” In Beowulf: A Verse Translation, trans. Seamus Heaney, ed. Daniel Donoghue, 98–100. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
“Conditions for the Voicing of Old English Fricatives, II: Morphology.” English Language and Linguistics 6 (2002), 81–104.
“Myth in Historical Perspective: The Case of Pagan Deities in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies.” In Myth: A New Symposium, ed. Gregory Schrempp and William Hansen, 225–39. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2002.
“Early Middle English Evidence for Old English Metrics: Resolution in Poema morale.” Journal of Germanic Linguistics 14 (2002), 331–55.
“Beowulf.” The Literary Encyclopedia, ed. Robert Clark. [An on-line publication, at http://www.litencyc.com./; pub. 2002.]
R.D. Fulk and Kari Ellen Gade. “A Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters.” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 34 (2002), 87–186.
Daniel Donoghue, R.D. Fulk, and R. M. Liuzza, eds. The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2000. [= Old English Newsletter 35.2 (2002).] Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University.
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