I’ve been quiet of late, mostly because I’ve had several projects all coming to fruition more or less at the same time, followed by the end-of-term throes that I’m slogging through right now. Managing to get it all done put me in shut-up-and-work mode for a few months. The last …
School started today, which meant a number of students coming to my office to ask what I thought about the new Hobbit movie. The short answer is I liked it. . . . The long answer — indeed, the long-winded long answer of a scholar who publishes on medieval literature, …
It’s been a busy month, but that’s not news. What is news is this: Last Monday I was awarded the Citadel’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service. It’s a new award, and it’s pretty darn nifty honor to receive it. Even better, my parents — who are …
Some weeks ago, a student of mine posed a question to me in the minutes before class began: If you could meet five people, from any time in history, who would they be? I didn’t have time to think about the notion then, and I’d essentially forgotten all about it …
My next academic book is a “casebook” about Owain Glyndwr. It’s shaping up to be a terrific volume, with a number of great essays and (most importantly, I think) the primary medieval and early modern sources about his life, presented in their original languages (mainly Latin, Welsh, Anglo-Norman, Old French, …