- Department, Office, or School
- Department of English
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- emailbhawk@ric.edu
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- location_onCraig-Lee Hall, 149
With a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut (2014), I joined the 麻豆原创 English Department in 2015. My fields of expertise are Old and Middle English, Old Norse, history of the English language, digital humanities, the Bible as/in literature, translation, and the history of the book. Most of my interests in research and teaching encompass what might be called transmission studies: the afterlives of texts, including circulation, translations, adaptations, and representations in various cultures and media.
My first book, , was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018, and my second book, , was published by Cascade Books in 2019. In 2021, I published with Rockridge Press.
I also work on pop culture uses of the Middle Ages and religion. I鈥檝e written a for my website, , Forces of Geek, the , and . I鈥檝e especially focused some of this work on . I鈥檝e recently collaborated with Dot Porter at the University of Pennsylvania on a series of videos titled Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away鈥揳ll about the connections between Star Wars and medieval manuscripts. You can see , and you can find .
You can learn more about me on my website and blog about teaching and research at .
Education
B.A., Houghton College
M.A., University of Connecticut
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Selected Publications
鈥淏iblical Apocrypha as Medieval World Literature,鈥 The Medieval Globe 6.2 (2020): 49-83.
鈥淰ersions of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew in Early England,鈥 Philological Quarterly 99 (2020): 245-67.
鈥淎pocrypha and Fictionality,鈥 invited contribution to a ,鈥 New Literary History 51 (2020): 253-57.
鈥淎 History of the Study of Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England,鈥 forthcoming in Bulletin for the Study of Religion.
鈥淢odelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule,鈥 co-authored with Antonia Karaisl and Nick White, forthcoming in .
鈥淧rosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Disability Studies Quarterly 38.4 (2018): .
鈥淭丑别&苍产蝉辫;Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the Rule of the Master, and the Rule of Benedict,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Revue B茅n茅dictine 128.2 (2018): 281-93.
鈥淭丑别&苍产蝉辫;Fifteen Signs before Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: A Reassessment,鈥&苍产蝉辫;JEGP 117 (2018): 443-57.
鈥淭he Literary Contexts and Early Transmission of the Latin Life of Judas,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 44 (2018): 60-76.
鈥溍唋fric鈥檚 Genesis and Bede鈥檚 Commentarius in Genesim,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Medium 脝vum 85 (2016): 208-16.
鈥淧salm 151 in Anglo-Saxon England,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Review of English Studies n.s. 66 (2015): 805-21.
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Books
The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary, Early Christian Apocrypha Series (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, forthcoming).
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 30 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).鈥
Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible (Emeryville, CA: Rockridge Press, 2021).
Courses
ENGL 120 Studies in Literature and Identity
ENGL 121 Studies in Literature and Nation
ENGL 122 Studies in Literature and the Canon
ENGL 123 Studies in Literature and Genre
ENGL 200 Reading Literature and Culture
ENGL 205 British Literature to 1700
ENGL 347 Literatures of Medieval Britain
ENGL 345 Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies
ENGL 346 Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
ENGL 432 Studies in the English Language
ENGL 460 Seminar in Major Authors & Themes: Medieval Multimedia
ENGL 501 Introduction to Graduate Study
ENGL 530 Topics in British Literature before 1660: Medieval Multimedia