Malcolm Godden

Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford from 1991 until 2013.[1]

From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge; 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
  • 1991-2013: 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.

He was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2009.[3]

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
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gollark: What if the plots are plotting against me and cannot be used?
gollark: What if I don't want to?
gollark: They just don't make sense. Do they go up or down or sideways? What if I put in a really, really big number - can it reach the thing it asymptotically tends towards *then*? What if I want it to output a different value? Are bees holomorphic?
gollark: However, I don't know how asymptotes work, so I'm just going for slightly increasing it each time.

References
  1. "Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon". Professorships Held by the Inklings. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  2. "Malcolm R. Godden". Oxford University. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  3. "GODDEN, Professor Malcolm". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
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