Gathering information for my tenure documentation packet, I recently spent a bit of time Googling my academic self. I found what I needed, but I also a lot of unrelated but surprisingly interesting bits of data, too.
Some highlights:
– My article “More Vinland Maps and Texts: Discovering the New World in Higden’s Polychronicon” was at least at one point the 23rd most popular article in the renowned Journal of Medieval History.
– My article on popular culture and Beowulf, co-written with John William Sutton, is the basis of a writing assignment at Winthrop University.
– My entire bibliography for Siege Of Jerusalem
– My first article, a historical study of the development of Christianity in the first-century, is referenced in a German monograph under the name “Livingstone.” It is also referenced in English under that name. Odd.
– Both of my Tolkien articles are free online (here and here), but both of them are also for sale on Amazon for $9.95 (see my Amazon author’s page
– One of those articles (this one) is cited by Wikipedia’s article on The Hobbit.
– Wikipedia’s article on the Battle of Brunanburh makes heavy use of The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook
– The librarians at Keele University have placed my article “Aphra Behn’s ‘The Disappointment’ as Ring Composition” among the 11 “recommended” books or articles for the study of Behn and/or John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This article is also heavily cited by a Master’s thesis issued last year at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
Small world, eh?
While most of this is pretty cool, I think, I was a bit sad about this one:
– My article explaining why H.G. Wells’ Martians in War of the Worlds use tripods seems to have fallen into a deep pool: I couldn’t find it cited once. 🙁