CURRICULUM VITAE
EDWARD DONALD KENNEDY
EDUCATION:
1967
1962
1961
Other:
1979
1970
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (English--Medieval)
M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (English)
A.B., West Virginia University, Morgantown (Math)
Participant in four-week Goethe Institute Advanced German Course, Rothenburgob-der Tauber, Germany
Participant in 6-week Medieval Academy Palaeography Seminar, Harvard
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
20092006-2009
1994-2006
199019871975-87
1967-75
1963-67
Professor of English and Comparative Literature (phased retirement); affiliate
faculty, Curriculum in International and Area Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Professor of English and Chair, Comparative Literature
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UNC, Chapel Hill
Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Teaching Fellow, Teaching Assistant, Instructor, University of Illinois
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Summer Research Fellowship, Duke-UNC Cooperative Program in the Humanities (1970); chosen as
participant in 6-week Medieval Academy Paleography Seminar, Harvard (1970); ACLS Travel Grant to
attend International Arthurian Congress, Regensburg, West Germany (1979); ACLS Research Council Grant
for academic year (1981-82); American Philosophical Society Research Grant and ACLS Grant-in-Aid for
work in England on Middle English Chronicles (1984); UNC Research Council Grants for research expenses
for work on Middle English chronicles for the Manual of the Writings in Middle English (1983, 1985), for
subvention for edition (with J. S. Wittig) of Medieval English Studies (1986), for research on medieval
French chronicles (1992, 1994), for work on edition of short Scottish chronicles (1998); University Institute
for Arts & humanities Fellowship (Spring 2005); UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Travel Grant
(Summer 2008).
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED: Page Life (1979); Margaret Morse (CMPL, 1985); Alan Baragona (1989);
Kathleen Kelly (1990); Lan Lipscomb (1990); Laura Gabiger (1993); Anne Bliss (1993); Rossalyn
Roissignol (1993); David Parker (1996); Katryna Rudnytzky (1997); Candice May (1997), Mark DiCicco
(1998) Suzanne Craymer (2000), Audrey DeLong (2003); Sarah Lindsay (2011); Euan Griffiths (in progress).
MA THESES DIRECTED: Sarah Robbins (1975); Thomas Howerton (1976); Louise Horner Reiss (CMPL
1977); Susan L. McRae (CMPL [with Petrus Tax]. 1978); James Padgett (1979); April Lambert Levy (1980);
Michael Kuczynski (1981); Denise Abbott (1987); Holly Marshall (1987); Ann Bliss (1988);Virginia King
(CMPL; 1992); Donna Dennette (1992); Richard Spinks (1992); Suzanne Craymer (1992); Alice Blackwell
(1993); Mark Dicicco (1994); Britt Mize (1996): Hope Johnston (1998); Elizabeth Keim (2003); Mary
Raschko (2004); Mark Vaughn (2004), Sarah Lindsay (2005), Tom Elrod (2009).
Printed February 12, 2016
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SENIOR HONORS THESES DIRECTED: Wallace Bryson Bateman (1972), Harold Mark Fischer (1972);
Ellen Leach (1973); Mary Ferraro (1976); James Weiner (1980); Brandon Matthews(Whitfield Prize, 1991);
Michelle Gnyp (1992); Verna Kale (December 1999); Kristianna Curatura (2004), Emily Serkedakis (2010);
Kelly Teagle (in progress 2011-2012).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
READER for Studies in Philology, Speculum, South Atlantic Bulletin, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, JEGP,
Mediaeval Studies, MLN, Arthuriana, Modern Philology, The Medieval Chronicle, UNC Press, University of
Arkansas Press, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, University of Toronto Press, Cornell
University Press, Hackett Publishing, Routledge.
EDITORIAL BOARDS: Studies in Philology (1992-97; 1997-2009, editor; 2019-present); Tristania book
review editor (1976-82); Arthurian Literature (1994-97); Medieval Chronicles (Boydell & Brewer)(1997present); Arthuriana (1998-present), The Medieval Chronicle (Rodopi, Amsterdam); Medieval Identities:
Socio-Cultural Spaces (Monograph series, University of Hull, UK).
REVIEWER FOR GRANTING AGENCIES: NEH, American Philosophical Society, Pennsylvania State
University, NWO Council for the Humanities (the Dutch Research Council)
EVALUATOR of candidates for promotion at York University (Canada), University of Arkansas at Little
Rock, Michigan State (2), University of Wales at Bangor, Ithaca College, Pennsylvania State UniversityAltoona, Notre Dame, Pennsylvania State University-University Park, University of British Columbia,
University of Oklahoma, University of Virginia’s College at Wise, University of Kentucky, University of
Bristol (England)
EXTERNAL APPRAISER FOR PHD DISSERTATION, Centre for Medieval Studies, The University of
Toronto (1998-99); The University of Delaware (2008)
EXTERNAL MEMBER, Review Committee of Dept of Comparative Literature, the University of Georgia,
Athens
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Member of Executive Committee, Arthurian Discussion Group,
MLA (1981-83); Member of Search Committee for Fishwick Chair in English, Roanoke College (1989);
Member, selection committee, NEH Summer Seminar for school teachers at Breadloaf (1992); Advisory
Board, Southern Comparative Literature Association (1996-98, 2004-06); Nominating Committees
International Arthurian Society—North American Branch (1998-99) and Southern Comparative Literature
Association (1998-99); Chair, Organizing Committee for SCLA annual conference (2000-01); International
Committee for Fourth International Medieval Chronicles Conference, University of Reading, (July 2005)
MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
International Arthurian Society; Medieval Chronicle Society; Phi Beta Kappa; Southern Comparative
Literature Association
PUBLICATIONS--BOOKS:
1. Edited with J. S. Wittig and R. Waldron, Medieval English Studies presented to George Kane, Cambridge
1988.
2. Middle English Chronicles and Other Historical Writing, vol VIII of A Manual of the Writings in Middle
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English, ed. Albert E. Hartung (New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989).
(Reviewed by Lister Matheson, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991), 210-13; Antonia Gransden, Review
of English Studies n.s. 43 (1992), 91-93); K. Bitterling, Anglia, 111 (1993), 187-89.)
3. Edited: King Arthur: A Casebook (New York: Garland, 1996; paperback, New York: Routledge, 2002).
(Reviewed by P.J.C. Field, Review of English Studies, n.s. 49 [1998], 119-20; David Staines, Speculum 73
[1998], 211-2; John Withrington, The Chaucer Yearbook 5 [1998], 206-9; Rachael Lazenby, Reading
Medieval Studies 29 [2003], 78.)
4. Edited with Raluca Radulescu, Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France.
Turnhout, Belgium: 2008.
5. Subject Editor for 324 entries on English, Anglo-Norman and Latin chronicles produced in Britain and
Scotland, The Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, gen. ed. Graeme Dunphy, Leiden: E. J. Brill,
2010. (Review by Janos Bak, The Medieval Review, 2011 <scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631>.
6. Edited with Dan Embree and Kathleen Daly. Short Scottish Prose Chronicles, forthcoming Woodbridge,
Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2011. [A collection of 15th- and 16th-century Scots, Latin and French chronicles]
PUBLICATIONS--JOURNALS EDITED:
Studies in Philology, Vols. 94 (1997), 95 (1998), 96 (1999), 97 (2000), 98 (2001), 99 (2002), 100 (2003), 101
(2004), 102 (2005), 103 (2006), 104 (2007), 105 (2008), 106 (2009).
Associate Editor, The Comparatist (2004-2009)
PUBLICATIONS—ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. "James I and Chapman's Byron Plays," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 64 (1965), 677-90.
2. "Malory's Use of Hardyng's Chronicle," Notes and Queries, N.S. 16 (1969), 167-70.
3. "Malory and the Marriage of Edward IV," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 12 (1970), 155-62.
4. "Arthur's Rescue in Malory and the Spanish Tristan," Notes and Queries, n.s. 17 (1970), 6-10.
5. "The Arthur-Guenevere Relationship in Malory's Morte Darthur," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 4
(1971), 29-40.
6. "Two Notes on Malory: 1. Malory and the Spanish Tristan: Further Parallels; 2. Tristan's Death in
Malory's Morte Darthur," Notes and Queries, n.s. 19 (1972), 7-10.
7. a. "Malory's King Mark and King Arthur," Mediaeval Studies, 37 (1975), 190-234.
b. Revised version in King Arthur: A Casebook, ed. Edward Donald Kennedy (New York: Garland, 1996;
paperback New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 139-171.
8. a."Sir Orfeo as Rex Inutilis" Annuale Mediaevale, 17 (1976), 88-110.
b. Reprinted electronically by HERON, a division of Ingenta, Oxford, England, 2005, as part of their
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educational resource data bank.
9. "Malory's Version of Mador's Challenge," Notes and Queries, n.s. 23 (1976), 100-03.
10. "Arthurian Literature for Undergraduates," Ralph, 5 (1978), 4-6.
11. "Malory and His English Sources," Aspects of Malory, ed. D. S. Brewer and T. Takamiya (Cambridge,
Eng. D. S. Brewer, 1981, rptd. 1986), pp. 27-55, 189-93.
12. The following entries for The Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris Lacy, New York, 1986: Arthur,
Thomas Bek of Castelford, John Capgrave, Arthurian Chronicles in English, John Hardyng, Ranulph Higden,
Lancelot of the Laik, Layamon, John Lydgate, Robert Mannyng of Brynne, Parlement of the Thre Ages,
Prose Brut, Robert of Gloucester, Scottish Arthurian Chronicles (John Barbour, Andrew of Wyntoun, John of
Fordun, Chronicle of Scotland in a Part, Blind Harry, Hector Boece, John Major, John Bellenden, William
Stewart, George Buchanan, John Leslie), Short Metrical Chronicle, John Trevisa, pp. 18, 43, 82, 113, 268,
284, 327-28, 332-34, 344, 358, 416-17, 436-37, 458-59, 495-98, 505, 564-65.
13. a. "John Hardyng and the Holy Grail", Arthurian Literature 8 (1989), 185-206.
b. revised version in Glastonbury and the Arthurian Tradition, ed. James Carley (Cambridge: D.S.
Brewer, 2001), 249-68.
14. "Medieval English Studies at Chapel Hill," Medieval English Studies Newsletter (Tokyo), 24 (1991), 1-3.
15. The following entries for The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. N. Lacy, New York: Garland 1991:
Andrew of Wyntoun, Arthur, John Barbour, Thomas Bek of Castelford, Blind Harry, Hector Boece, Walter
Bower, George Buchanan, John Capgrave, Chronicle of Scotland in a Part, Scottish Arthurian Chronicles,
Arthurian Chronicles in English, John Hardyng, Ranulph Higden, John of Fordun, Lancelot of the Laik,
Layamon, John Leslie, John Lydgate, John Major, Robert Mannyng of Brunne, Parlement of the Thre Ages,
Prose Brut, Robert of Gloucester, Short Metrical Chronicle, John Trevisa, pp. 8, 16, 32, 34, 41, 43, 49, 58, 72,
92, 93-4, 221, 236, 252, 271-2, 274-6, 278, 286, 293-4, 297-8, 352-3, 372-3, 386-7, 417, 461. (Revised and
expanded entries that were originally in the Arthurian Encyclopedia; the "Walter Bower" entry is new.)
16. "The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Disappearance of Sir Feltemour," Poetica, 35 (1992),
41-52.
17. "Gower, Chaucer, and French Prose Arthurian Romance," Mediaevalia 16 (1993), 55-90.
18. "Malory's 'Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake,' the Vulgate Lancelot, and the Post-Vulgate Roman du
Graal," Arthurian and Other Studies Presented to Shunichi Noguchi, ed. T. Suzuki and T. Mukai
(Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1993), pp. 107-29.
19. "The Stanzaic Morte Arthur: The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English Audience," Culture
and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend, ed. James Carley and Martin B. Shichtman,
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), pp. 91-112.
20. "Generic Intertextuality in the English Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Italian Connection,"
Intertextuality in Medieval Arthurian Literature, ed. Norris J. Lacy. New York: Garland, 1996. Pp. 41-56.
21. a. "King Arthur: An Introduction." “Select Bibliography,” King Arthur: A Casebook. Ed. Edward Donald
Kennedy. New York: Garland, 1996. pp. xii-xlvii, xlix-lvi.
b. Paperback edition, New York: Routledge, 2002.
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22. “The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Scottish Arthurian Tradition,” Chivalry, Knighthood and War in the
Middle Ages, ed. S.J. Ridyard, Sewanee Mediaeval Studies 9 (1999), 151-63.
23. a. “Malory’s Guenevere: ‘A Woman Who Had Grown a Soul,’” Arthuriana, 9.2 (1999), 37-45.
b. Reprinted in On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries, ed. Bonnie Wheeler and
Fiona Tolhurst (Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2001), 35-44.
24. “Romancing the Past: A Middle English Perspective,” The Medieval Chronicle, ed. Erik Kooper,
Costerus NS 120 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999), pp. 13-39.
25. “Caxton, Malory, and the ‘Noble Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius,’” The Malory Debate:
Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur, ed. Bonnie Wheeler, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael N. Salda
(Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000): 217-32.
26. “Caxton, Malory, Arthurian Chronicles, and French Romances; Intertextual Complexities,” Essays on
Medieval English presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on his Sixtieth birthday, ed. Yoko Iyeiri and
Margaret Connolly (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002), pp. 217-36.
27. “Editor’s Note: Volume 100,” Studies in Philology 100 (2003): i-ii.
28. “Malory’s Morte Darthur; A Politically Neutral English Adaptation of the Arthurian Story,’ Arthurian
Literature 20 (2003),145-69.
29. “Nicholas Seare’s Rude Tales and Glorious: Arthurian Romance?” Arthuriana, 14.1 (2004): 77-79.
30. “Robert of Gloucester,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison
60 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 22.483-84.
31. “John Warkworth,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison 60
vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 57.425-26.
32. “Thomas de Wykes,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison 60
vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 60.640-41.
33. “Sir Thomas Malory’s (French) Romance and (English) Chronicle,” Arthurian Studies in Honour of P J C
Field, ed. Bonnie Wheeler (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), 223-34.
34. “The Chronicle of Scotland in a Part and the Chronicle of John Hardyng,” The Medieval Book and a
Modern Collector : Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, ed. by Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal
and John Scahill,. (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004), 357-70.
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35. “Guest Respondent Professor Edward Donald Kennedy Critiques Two Concordia Student papers,” The
Undergraduate English Journal (Concordia University), 2 (2004), 1, 8, 10.
36. “Visions of History: Robert de Boron and English Arthurian Chronicles,” The Fortunes of Arthur, ed.
Norris J. Lacy, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005), 29-46.
37. “Arthurian History: The Chronicle of Jehan de Waurin,” The Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and
Karen Pratt (Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 2006), 497-501.
38. “Medieval Drama,” Western Drama through the Ages: A Student Reference Guide, ed. J. K. King, 2 vols.
(Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2007), 1.81-94.
39. “Gawain’s Family and Friends: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Its Allusions to French Prose
Romances,” People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature, ed. T. Summerfield and K. Busby
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 143-60.
40. “Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” Arthurian Writers: A Biographical
Encyclopedia, ed. Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press,
2008), 218-29.
41. “The Grail and French Arthurian Romance,” The Blackwell Guide to Arthurian Literature, ed. Helen
Fulton. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 202-17.
42. “The Antiquity of Scottish Civilization: King-Lists and Genealogical Chronicles,” in Broken Lines, ed.
Raluca Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. 159-74.
43. “’Follow the Gleam’: The Grail Quest in Medieval and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature,”
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 16.2 (2009), 9-29.
44. “Mordred’s Sons,” The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition, ed. Karen Cherewatuk and Kevin
Whetter. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009. 33-49.
45. “Lilian Renée Furst,” The Comparatist, 34 (2010), MS. 3 pp.
46. Encyclopedia entries written for The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles, gen. ed. Graeme Dunphy, 2
vols (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010): 1) “Arthur,” 2) “Brevis Cronica Scotorum,” 3) “Nomina omnium regum
Scotorum,” 4) “Ynglis Chronicle,” 5) “The Scots Chronicle” [Short Chronicle of 1482] 6) “Scottis Originale
(Chronicle of Scotland in a Part).”7) “Annales Anglosxonici breves,” 8) “A tretis compiled out of diverse
chronicles,” 9) “Gesta regum Britannie,” 10) “Latin Prose Brut” (with Peter Larkin), 11) “Geoffrey of
Monmouth” (with Jane Beal) 12) “Scottish Chronicle,” 13) “St. Andrews Chronicle,” 14) “Coventry Annals,”
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15) “Sex Werkdays and Agis,” 16) “St. Benet at Holme Annals,” 17) “Cronica Buriensis,” 18) “Walden
Chronicle” (with Raluca Radulescu), 19) “Walden Annals,” 20) “Metrical History of the Kings of England,”
21) “Historia Britonum Abbreviata,” 22) “Reginald de Wroxham,”23) “William Packington,” 24) “Pipewell
Chronicle,” 25) “Annals for 1-594 in Cotton Domitian xiii,” 26) “History of Lanthony Abbey,” 27) “History
of Byland Abbey,”28) “Chronicon de origine et rebus gestis Britanniae et Angliae,” 29) “Chronicon anonymi
Cantuariensis,” 30) “Chronicle of the Picts and Scots (Latin),” 31) “Chronicles of the Scots,” 32) “Annals of
Hailes Abbey,” 33) “Chronicon monasticum Hailae,” 34) “Dieulacres Chronicle 1337-1403,” 35) “John
Greenwell,” 36) “Chronicon elegiacum” (with Melissa Ridley-Elmes), 37) “John of Fordun,” 38) “Chronicle
of Battle Abbey 1,” 39) “Chronicle of Battle Abbey 2,” 40) “Thomas Otterbourne 1,” 41) “Thomas
Otterbourne 2,” 42) “Historia Brittonum,” 43) “John Benet,” 44) “Annals of Burton,” 45) “Annals of
Coggeshill,” 46) “Annals of Croxden,” 47) “Annals of Lewes,” 48) “Annals of Kingswood,” 49) “Annals of
Northampton,” 50) “Annals of Plympton,” 51) “Annals of Stanley,” 52) “Blacmon, John” 53) “Brief Notes of
occurrences under Henry VI & Edward IV,” 54) “Brompton, John” 55) “Canterbury Cathedral Chronicle,”
56) “Chronicon Glastenburiense (William I to 1388),” 57) “Chronicle of Huntingdon,” 58) “Chronicon de
Jervaulx,” 59) “Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon 1218-1304,” 60) “Chronicum Scotorum,” 61) “Chronicle
of Sherborne Abbey,” 62) “Chronicle of the Kings of Alba,” 63) “Chronicle of the See of Lindisfarne,” 64)
“Chronicon Aedis Christi,” 65) “Domesday Breviate Annals,” 66) “Elias of Trickingham,” 67) “Excerpta ex
historia Anglorum,” 68) “Historia Eduardi Tertii 1326-77,” 69) “Iona Chronicle,” 70) “John of Canterbury,”
71) “John of Wallingford,” 72) “Lichfield Chronicle,” 73) “Lives of Edward the Confessor,” 74) “Norwich
Chronicle,” 75) “Pike, John,” 76) “Worcester, William” 77) “Annals of St. Osyth’s,” 78) “Annals of Thorney
Abbey,” 79) “Brevis relatio de Guillelmo Nobilissimo comite Normannorum.” 80) “Chronicon Angliae de
regnis Hienrici IV, Henrici V, Henrici VI,” 81) “Chronicon Angliae Petroburgense,” 82) “Chronicle of the
Civil Wars of Edward II,” 83) “Chronicle of the Scots and Picts, 85) “Gesta Scotorum contra Anglos,” 86)
87) “Historia compendiosa de regibus Britonum,” 88) “Historia de Sancto Cuthberto,” 89) “Historia
fundationis Bellalandae,” 90) “Hyde Annals,” 91) “Liber de fundatione cenobii de Waledena,” 92) “Liber
extravagans,” 93) “Metrical History of the Kings of England,” 94) “Progress of King Edward I in his invasion
of Scotland,” 95) “Regnal Lists of Scotland,” 96) “Waltham Annals,” 97) “Chronicum Britannicum,” 98)
“London Chronicles” (with Raluca Radulescu), 99) “Annales Cicestrenses,” 100) “Annales Colcestrenses,”
101) “Historia Roffensis”; 102) “Chronicle of Man and the Isles”; 103) Chronicon S. Andreae.
47. “Arthurian Material” in The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, gen. ed. Graeme Dunphy, 2 vols.
Leiden: E. J.Brill, 2010. 1.114-18.
48. “Glastonbury” in The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. Siân Echard. Cardiff: The University of
Wales Press, 2011. Pp. 109-31.
49. “Malory’s Use of Hardyng’s Çhronicle: A Reconsideration,” West Virginia University Philological
Papers: Special Issue in Honor of Armand E. Singer, 54 (2011), 8-15.
50. “The Prose Brut, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: The End of the Story,” in
Romance: Dimensions of Time and Designs of History, ed. Jon Whitman (under review at a press). MS: 31
pp.
51. “The Scottish Lancelot of the Laik and Malory’s Morte Darthur: Contrasting Approaches to the Same
Story,” Festschrift in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Howell Chickering et. al. Palgrave, forthcoming 2012.
MS. 16 pp.
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52. “Introduction” (with Kathleen Daly) in Short Scottish Chronicles, ed. Dan Embree, Edward Donald
Kennedy, and Kathleen Daly, forthcoming 2011, Boydell Press. MS: 80 pp.
53. “Malory and Political Prophecy,” 19 pp., under review at scholarly journal.
54. “Geoffrey de Runcey,” “Kentish Annals,” “Corvey Annals,” 3 pp., for on-line version of Encyclopedia of
the Medieval Chronicle, forthcoming 2012.
55. “Scota” in The Albina Casebook, ed. Margaret Lamont & Christopher Baswell, forthcoming Broadview
Press, MS 10 pp.
TRANSLATIONS:
Translations of the following articles prepared for King Arthur: A Casebook:
1. Elspeth Kennedy. "Etudes sur le Lancelot en prose: 2: Le Roi Arthur dans le Lancelot en prose." Romania
105 (1984), 46-62.
2. Fanni Bogdanow. "La chute du royaume d'Arthur: Évolution du thème." Romania 107 (1986), 504-19.
3. Karl Josef Höltgen. “König Arthur und Fortuna." Anglia 75 (1957), 35-54.
4. Karl Heinz Göller. "König Arthur in den Schottischen Chroniken." Anglia 80 (1962), 390-404.
5. François Gallix. "T. H. White et la légende du roi Arthur: de la fantasie animale au moralisme politique."
Études anglaises 34 (1981), 192-203.
BOOK REVIEWS:
1. Review of Elizabeth T. Pochoda, Arthurian Propaganda: Le Morte Darthur as an Historical Ideal of Life
in Speculum, 48 (1973), 397-402.
2. Review of P. J .C. Field, Romance and Chronicle: A Study of Malory's Prose Style in Clio, 2 (1973), 19697.
3. Review of Huling E. Ussery, Chaucer's Physician: Medicine and Literature in Fourteenth-Century
England in South Atlantic Bulletin, 38 (1973), 108-09.
4. Review of Paul Piehler, The Visionary Landscape in Style, 8 (1974), 263-64.
5. Review of Mark Lambert, Malory: Style and Vision in Le Morte Darthur in JEGP, 76 (1977), 125-28.
6. Review of Thomas Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy, ed. John Reidy in Anglia, 95 (1977), 523-26.
7. Reviews of The Romance of Tristan and Isolt, trans. Norman B. Spector; The Saga of Tristram and Isond,
trans. Paul Schach in Tristania, 3 (1977), 33-37.
8. Review of Emmanuele Baumgartner, Le "Tristan en prose": Essai d'interpretation d'un roman medieval
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in Tristania, 3 (1977), 41-45.
9. Review of Le Morte Arthur, ed. P. F. Hissiger, Anglia, 96 (1978), 221-25.
10. Review of Christian K. Zacher, Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of Discovery in FourteenthCentury England, Anglia, 98 (1980), 484-86.
11. Review of C. David Benson, The History of Troy in Middle English Literature, Anglia, 101 (1983), 50308.
12. Review of W. R. J. Barron, Trawthe and Treason: The Sin of Gawain Reconsidered, Anglia, 101 (1983),
229-31.
13. Review of Sandra Ness Ihle, Malory's Grail Quest: Invention and Adaptation in Medieval Prose
Romance, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 6 (1984), 196-98.
14. Review of Middle English Alliterative Poetry and Its Literary Background, ed. D. Lawton, Anglia, 103
(1985), 465-68.
15. Review of W. F. Schirmer, Geschichte der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, 6th ed., ed. A. Esch.
Studienausgabe I, 1. Die Altenglische Zeit, revised by K. H. Goller: Die Mittellenglische Zeit, revised by T.
Stemmler, Anglia, 104 (1986), 171-74.
16. Review of Arthurian Literature III, ed. Richard Barber, Anglia, 104 (1986), 481-84.
17. Review of The Prophetia Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth: A Fifteenth-Century English Commentary,
ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt, in Anglia, 105 (1987), 210-12.
18. Review of The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed Mary Hamel, Anglia, 105 (1987), 485-90.
19. Review of Studies in Malory, ed. J. W. Spisak, in Speculum 62 (1987), 476-79.
20. Review of Muriel Whitaker, Arthur's Kingdom of Adventure: The World of Malory's Morte Darthur,
Anglia, 106 (1988), 233-36.
21. Review of David Aers, Chaucer in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 10 (1988), 114-116.
22. Review of The Popular Literature of Medieval England, ed. T. J. Heffernan, in Anglia, 106 (1989), 180183.
23. Review of The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, ed. P. Boitani and J. Mann, in Anglia, 107 (1989), 52325.
24. Review of J. Taylor, English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century, in Anglia, 108 (1990), 20914.
25. Review of F. Riddy, Sir Thomas Malory, in Anglia, 108 (1990), 230-33.
26. Review of Arthurian Literature VII, ed. R. Barber, Anglia, 109 (1991), 179-82.
27. Review of L. Gowans, Cei and the Arhurian Legend, Anglia 109 (1991), 494-96.
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28. Review of Malory: The Critical Heritage, ed. M.J. Parins, Anglia 109 (1991), 496-99.
29. Review of T. McCarthy, Reading the Morte Darthur, Anglia 110 (1992), 206-210.
30. Review of F. Le Saux, Layamon's Brut: the Poem and Its Sources and Layamon's Brut, trans. D. Bzdyl in
Anglia 110 (1992), 206-210.
31. Review of The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. E. Vinaver, 3rd rvsd end P.J.C. Field, in Speculum 67
(1992), 1001-1002.
32. Review of Arthurian Literature IX, ed. R. Barber and Arthurian Literature X, ed. R. Barber, Anglia, 111
(1993), 201-04.
33. Review of John Kleiner, Mismapping the Underworld: Daring and Error in Dante’s ‘Comedy’
Philosophy and Literature, 19 (1995), 415-16.
34. Review of Arthurian Literature XI, ed. R. Barber, Anglia, 113 (1995), 394-96.
35. Review of Robert A. Albano, Middle English Historiography, Speculum, 71 (1996), 112-114.
36. Review of P.J.C. Field, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, Anglia. 115 (1997), 106-10.
37. Review of John Darrah, Paganism in Arthurian Romance, Anglia, 114 (1997), 402-5.
38. Review of Gerrit H.V. Bunt, Alexander the Great in the Literature of Medieval Britain , Speculum 72
(1997), 120-1.
39. Review of Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, The Two Versions of Malory’s Morte Darthur, Speculum, 72
(1997), 892-3.
40. Review of Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds., A Companion to Malory, Arthuriana 8 (1998):
97-99.
41. Review of William Franke, Dante’s Interpretive Journey, The Comparatist 22 (1998): 204-5.
42. Review of Thorlac Turville-Petre, England the Nation: Language, Literature, and National Identity,
1290-1340, Speculum 73 (1998): 616-8.
43. Review of Françoise Le Saux, ed., The Text and Tradition of La3amon’s Brut, Anglia 116 (1998): 96-8.
44. Review of Lister Matheson, The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle, Notes &
Queries, 245 (2000): 225-26.
45. Review of Catherine Batt, Malory’s “Morte Darthur”: Remaking Arthurian Tradition, The Medieval
Review, http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr [8 pp.]
46.Review of Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur’s Chronicler, for Arthuriana,
16.4 (2006): 89-91.
47. Turpine’s Story: A Middle English Translation of the “Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle,” ed. Stephen H. A.
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Shepherd. Early English Text Society OS 322 (2004), JEGP 107 (2008), 120-21.
48. Ralph Norris, Malory’s Library, JEGP 109 (2010), 257-60.
49. Molly Martin, Vision and Gender in Malory’s “Morte Darthur, ” forthcoming JEGP 111 (2012). MS: 5
pp.
Papers Read:
2011
“Malory and Political Prophecy,” International Arthurian Congress, Bristol, England,
July 29.
2010
“Medieval Studies Past and Present,” Southeastern Medieval Association, Roanoke,
VA, November 20
2009
2009
“Arthur and Glastonbury,” Medieval & Early Modern English Studies Association of
Korea, Oct. 31.
“Malory: An Introduction,” Seoul National University, Oct. 30.
2009
“Publishing in Academic Journals,” Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 29
2008
“Another Latin Brut Manuscript,” paper read at the International Medieval
Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May
“Mordred’s Sons,’ paper read at Congress of the International Arthurian Society,
Rennes, France, July.
“The Antiquity of Scottish Civilization: King-Lists and Genealogical Chronicles,”
paper read at International Medieval Chronicles conference, Belfast, July.
“Joseph of Arimathea and Glastonbury,” paper read at the International Medieval
Congress, Kalamazoo, May
“ ‘Follow the Gleam’: The Grail Quest in Medieval and Modern Literature.” Seventh
Annual Conference on Teaching Medieval Literature, Georgia Perimeter
College—Lawrenceville, March 2 (invited plenary)
“Arthur and Glastonbury,” 20th Annual Medieval Renaissance Conference, the
University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Sept. 14 (invited plenary)
“The Prose Brut, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: The End
of the Story,” conference on Romance: Dimensions of Time and Designs of
History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 29 (invited)
Round Table discussion of medieval genealogical literature, International Medieval
Congress, Kalamazoo, May 5
“Malory’s Conclusion to Morte Darthur, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and Malory’s
Political Mentality: A Reconsideration,” Japanese Branch of the International
Arthurian Society, Keio University, Tokyo, April 15 (invited)
“The King Arthur of History,” class taught to two English classes at Keio University,
Tokyo April 19 (invited)
“Gawain’s Family and Friends: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Its Allusions
to French Prose Arthurian Romances,” Congress of the International Arthurian
Society, Utrecht, NL July 24030
“Brevis Cronica: Form and Functin,” International Medieval Chronicle Conference,
Reading, England, July 15; also chaired one plenary session
Participated in panel discussion on scholarly publishing, The American Comparative
Literature Association, Penn State, March 12
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
2005
2005
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2005
2004
2004
2003
2003
2003
2002
2002
2002
2001
2000
1999
1999
1998
1997
1997
1996
1996
1996
1993
1993
1993
1990
Organized, chaired three seminars on medieval and early modern translation at the
American Comparative Literature Association meeting, Penn State, March 11-13
“Short Scottish Chronicles: Political Sound Bites of the Middle Ages,” Southern
Comparative Literature Association, Columbia, SC, Oct. 1
“Can Mordred Be Portrayed with Sympathym” 39th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 9
“SCLA: 9/11,” Plenary lecture at opening reception of meeting of the Southern
Comparative Literature Association, Austin, TX, September 1.
“Rude Tales and Glorious: Arthurian Romance?” 38tyh International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9.
Organized, chaired, and served as respondent to a session on medieval and Early
Modern translation, meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association,
Tuscaloosa, AL, October 11
“The Scottish Lancelot of the Laik: Its Source and Its Milieu,” Congress of the
International Arthurian Society, Bangor Wales, July 25
“Myth as History, History as Politics: The Short Middle Scots Prose Chronicles”
(with Dan Embree), Third International Medieval Chronicles Conference,
Utrecht, NL, July.
Plenary Lecture: “Robert de Boron and Medieval English Chroniclers,” Fortunes of
Arthur Conference, Pennsylvania State University, March 21.
Chaired session on Arthur in the Chronicles, 36th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3
Chaired sessions on Arthurian Chronicles and Arthurian Women at the 35th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 6.
“The Arthurian Story in the Chronicle of Jehan de Waurin,” read at the International
Conference on the Medieval Chronicle at Utrecht in July
“Malory’s Morte Darthur: A Fifteenth-Century English Adaptation of ThirteenthCentury French Romance” read at the 19th International Congress of the
Arthurian Society at Toulouse in July
“Malory’s Guenevere: ‘A Woman Who Had Grown a Soul,’” 33rd International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8
“Hardyng’s Chronicle: History, Propaganda, and Moral Treatise.” paper read at 32nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 10
Chaired session on “Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts in Medieval French Literature,”
32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 8
“The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Scottish Arthurian Tradition,” Sewanee
Medieval Colloquium, 3/30 (invited)
Plenary lecture: “Romancing the Past: A Middle English Perspective,” plenary
address at conference on the medieval chronicles Utrecht, The Netherlands, July
12-16 (invited). [Abstract printed in The Medieval Chronicle Utrecht 13-16 July
1996: Conference Summaries, p. 49.]
Participant in panel discussion on trends in scholarship on medieval chronicles,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 12-16
"Arthur in Malory and the Chronicles," plenary address at ACTA Conference on
Northern Europe, April 24 Buffalo State College of SUNY (invited)
"Arthurian Romance and the Modern Reader," Englisches Seminar, University of
Munich, Germany, July 21, (invited)
"Generic Intertextuality in the English Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Italian and
Scottish Connection," International Arthurian Congress, Bonn, Germany, July 29.
“The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Disappearance of Sir Feltemour,”
read at the International Arthurian Congress, Durham, England, August 1990
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1985
1981
1979
1979
1976
Outreach:
2006
2001
2000
1999
1999
1999
1997
1996
1986
1986
1983
1982
October, 2011
Formal response to a Malory paper at Sewanee Medieval Colloquium (invited).
“King Arthur” Keynote address at an NEH-sponsored course on the Arthurian
legends at Bucknell University (invited).
Arthurian Chronicles and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, International Arthurian
Congress, Glasgow, Scotland. (Because of the controller's strike, I was unable to
make plane connections and was unable to attend; someone read the paper for
me). Abstract published in Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian
Society, 33 (1981), 298.
Hardyng's Chronicle and the Grail Legends, International Arthurian Congress,
Regensburg, West Germany; abstract published in Bibliographical Bulletin of the
International Arthurian Society, 31 (1979), 283-84.
Malory and His English Sources, English Department Colloquium, University of
Munich, West Germany (invited).
Arthurian Literature for Undergraduates, Southeast Medieval Association (invited).
“King Arthur: A Hero from the (Really) Dark Ages,” UNC Humanities and Human
Values, February 24-25.
“King Arthur and the English Literary Tradition,” “Thomas Malory, His Morte
Darthur, and Arthurian Tragedy,” UNC Program in the Humanities and Human
Values, July 12-14.
Chaucer and the English Language (I): The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” “Chaucer and the
English Language (II): The Pardoner’s and the Friar’s Tales,” “Chaucer’s
Fifteenth-Century Successors,” and panel discussion, , UNC Program in the
Humanities and Human Values, July 17-19.
Medieval Conceptions of Alexander,” talk and panel discussion for seminar on “In
the Footsteps of Alexander,” UNC Program in the Humanities and Human
Values, March 31-April 1
Talk to UNC Medieval Studies Group about current scholarly research in October
Talk on Publishing in scholarly journals, Mellon Foundation Seminar in Professional
Balance, English Dept, UNC-Greensboro, June 3
“Sir Thomas Malory and the Tragedy of King Arthur,” talk and panel discussion for
seminar on the History of the English Language, UNC Program in the Humanities
and Human Values, April, April 18-19
“Chaucer and the English Language,” talk and panel discussion for seminar on the
History of the English Language, UNC Program in the Humanities and Human
Values, Oct. 18-19
“Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur and the Arthur of English Literary Tradition,”
UNC Weekend Humanities Seminar (invited).
John Hardyng and the Holy Grail, UNC English Department Colloquium.
King Arthur, Soundings radio broadcast (with George Russell), National Humanities
Center (invited).
An Introduction to Chaucer, Literary Heritage of England Program, Isothermal
Community College, Spindale, North Carolina (invited).