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

1. ^ "Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon". Professorships Held by the Inklings. http://home.earthlink.net/~dbratman/profs.html. Retrieved 22 October 2010. 
2. ^ "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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