Malcolm Reginald Godden

Malcolm Reginald Godden (born 9 October 1945) is the chair holder of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford and has occupied the office since May 1991.^[1]

From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University^[2] for a dissertation which was an edition of Ælfric's Second Series of Catholic Homilies under the supervision of Professor P. A. M. Clemoes.

His academic appointments include:

1969-1972: Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
1970-1971: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University
1972-75: University Lecturer, Department of English Language, Liverpool University
1976-91: Fellow and lecturer in English, Exeter College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Oxford University
1991- : Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford, and professorial fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

His interests include: Alfredian prose, Wulfstan of York, Ælfric of Eynsham and medieval theatre. He is currently an editor of the academic journal Anglo-Saxon England.

Bibliography

Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the Second Series, Text (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 5.) Oxford: University Press, 1979
The Making of Piers Plowman. London, 1990
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature; edited with M. Lapidge. Cambridge: University Press, 1991
From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: studies presented to E. G. Stanley; edited with D. Gray and T. Hoad. Oxford, 1994
Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the First Series, Text; ed. P. Clemoes. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 17.) Oxford: University Press, 1997
Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 18.) Oxford: University Press, 2000
The Old English Boethius: an edition of the Old English versions of Boethius’s "De Consolatione Philosophiae"; edited with S. Irvine. 2 vols. Oxford: University Press, 2009

References

^ "Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon". Professorships Held by the Inklings. http://home.earthlink.net/~dbratman/profs.html. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
^ "Malcolm R. Godden". Oxford University. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pemb0138/biography.html. Retrieved 22 October 2010.

External links

Oxford biography

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Name	Godden, Malcolm Reginald
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Short description	Academic and Old English philologist
Date of birth	9 October 1945
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