J. R. Hall

Professor of English

University of Mississippi

University, MS 38677-1848

Office: 313 Somerville Hall
Telephone and fax: 662 915 7145
E-mail: jrhall@olemiss.edu

Education

• Postdoctoral Study, Indiana University, Linguistics
  1975, summer; 1977, summer
• Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, English, 1973
• M.A., University of Notre Dame, English, 1970
• B.A., St. John Fisher College, Economics, 1968

National Honors and Awards

• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in American Education
• Research Fellowship, Earhart Foundation, June-August 2000
• Research Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, June 1993-May 1994
• Travel to International Meetings Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, May 1990
• Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer 1989
• Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, June-July 1985
• Teaching/Research Fellowship, Mellon Program, Harvard University, July 1983-June 1984
• Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, July 1981-June 1982

Service to Profession

• Reviewer of scholarship, "Year’s Work in Old English Studies," Old English Newsletter, 1976-2001
• Grants consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities (more than a million and a half dollars in grants refereed), 1991-present
• Manuscript referee for the University of Toronto Press, University of Missouri Press, University of Georgia Press, State University of New York Press, University of West Virginia Press, Yale University Press, and Blackwell Publishers
• Manuscript referee for JEGP, Speculum, Papers on Language and Literature, Old English Newsletter, Proceedings of the Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, and Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
• Guest editor for special Old English issue of ANQ, 15.2, spring 2002

Publications

• Reviews
• Old English Verse, by T. A. Shippey. Notre Dame English Journal 8 (1973): 110-13.
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, ed. Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 79 (1980): 148-50.
• The Old English Life of Machutus, ed. David Yerkes. American Notes and Queries 23 (1985): 125-26.
• The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England, by Richard Marsden. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 15. Speculum 73.1 (1998): 229-31.
• Old English Biblical Verse: Studies in "Genesis," "Exodus" and "Daniel," by Paul G. Remley. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 16. Speculum 74.4 (1999): 1110-12.
• Cædmonis Monachi Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios ac praecipuarum Sacrae paginae Historiarum, abhinc annos M.LXX. Anglo-Saxonicè conscripta, & nunc primum edita, by Franciscus Junius. Ed. Peter J. Lucas. Early Studies in Germanic Philology. Amsterdam and Atlanta, 2000. Notes and Queries 50 (2003): 82-83.
• Partial survey of scholarship on Old English poetry. "Year's Work in Old English Studies." Old English Newsletter 10, no. 1 (1976): 64-72; 11, no. 1 (1977): 46-53; 12, no. 1 (1978): 45-53; 13, no. 1 (1979): 38-43; 14, no. 1 (1980): 40-47; 15, no. 1 (1981): 86-94; 16, no. 1 (1982): 62-68; 17, no. 1 (1983): 71-78; 18, no. 1 (1984): 80-88; 19, no. 1 (1985): 73-76; 20, no. 1 (1986): 62-68; 21, no. 1 (1987): 67-74; 22, no. 1 (1988): 57-66; 23, no. 1 (1989): 56-60; 24, no. 2 (1991): 22-26; 25, no. 2 (1992): 36-42; 26, no. 2 (1993), 31-42; 27, no. 2 (1994): 33-38; 28, no. 2 (1995): 32-38; 29, no. 2 (1996): 38-44; 30, no. 2 (1997): 27-32; 31, no. 2 (1998): 35-41; 32, no. 2 (1999): 34-39; 33, no. 2 (2000), 49-54; 34, no. 2 (2001): 32-38.
• Essays
• "Geongordom and Hyldo in Genesis B: Serving the Lord for the Lord's Favor." Papers on Language and Literature 11 (1975): 302-07.
• "Niwe Flodas: Old English Exodus 362." Notes and Queries 22 (1975): 243-44.
• "The Building of Solomon's Temple in Exodus: Design for Typology." Neophilologus 59 (1975): 616-21.
• "Some Liturgical Notes on Ælfric's Letter to the Monks at Eynsham." The Downside Review 93 (1975): 297-303.
• "Frithgedal: Genesis A 1142." Notes and Queries 23 (1976): 207-08.
• "The Old English Epic of Redemption: The Theological Unity of MS Junius 11." Traditio 32 (1976): 185-208. Reprinted in The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings. Ed. Roy M. Liuzza. New York: Garland, 2002. 20-52.
• "Perspective and Wordplay in the Old English Rune Poem." Neophilologus 61 (1977): 453-60.
• "Pauline Influence on Exodus, 523-48." English Language Notes 15 (1977): 84-88.
• "Genesis A 1698." The Explicator 35, no. 3 (1977): 16-17.
• "The Old English Exodus and the Antiquitates Judaicae: More Parallels." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 216 (1979): 341-44.
• "OE Exodus 296a." The Explicator 39, no. 3 (1981): 26-27.
• "Duality and the Dual Pronoun in Genesis B." Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 139-45.
• "Old English Exodus 344b-51a: The Leader and the Light." English Language Notes 18 (1981): 163-66.
• "Mansceathan: Old English Exodus 37." Neophilologus 66 (1982): 145-48.
• "Old English Exodus 194-96." The Explicator 41, no. 4 (1983): 2-3.
• "Exodus 449a: beorhhlithu." American Notes and Queries 22 (1984): 94-97.
• "Exodus 119a: ofer clamme." English Language Notes 22 (1985): 3-6.
• "Old English Exodus 399: 'Fyrst Ferhthbana'—Once More." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 222 (1985): 339-43.
• "Some Additional Books at Harvard Annotated by Sir Frederic Madden." Notes and Queries 32 (1985): 313-15.
• " 'Angels . . . and All the Holy Ones': The Dream of the Rood 153b-54a." American Notes and Queries 24 (1986): 65-68.
• "On the Bibliographic Unity of Bodleian MS Junius 11." American Notes and Queries 24 (1986): 104-07.
• "Old English Exodus and the Sea of Contradiction." Mediaevalia 9 (1986 for 1983): 25-44.
• "Old English Daniel, Line 610b." The Explicator 45, no. 2 (1987): 3-4.
• "The Conybeare 'Cædmon': A Turning Point in the History of Old English Scholarship." Harvard Library Bulletin 33 (1987 for 1985): 378-403.
• "Two Dark Old English Compounds: ælmyrcan (Andreas 432a) and guthmyrce (Exodus 59a)." Journal of English Linguistics 20 (1987): 38-47.
• "Old English sæbeorg: Exodus 442a, Andreas 308a." Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 127-34.
• "Exodus 166b, cwyldrof; 162-67, the Beasts of Battle." Neophilologus 74 (1990): 112-21.
• "William G. Medlicott (1816-1833): An American Book Collector and His Collection." Harvard Library Bulletin ns 1 (1990): 13-46.
• "Exodus 488b, helpendra path." ANQ ns 5 (1992): 3-7.
• "The First Two Editions of Beowulf: Thorkelin's (1815) and Kemble's (1833)." The Editing of Old English: Papers from the 1990 Manchester Conference. Ed. D. G. Scragg and Paul E. Szarmach. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1994. 239-50.
• "Old English Literature." Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. Ed. D. C. Greetham. New York: MLA, 1995. 149-83.
• "Beowulf 2298a: on tha westenne ?" Notes and Queries 43 (1996): 254-57.
• "Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Anglo-Saxonism: The Question of Language." Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. Ed. Allen J. Frantzen and John D. Niles. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. 133-56.
• "Nineteenth-Century America and the Study of the Anglo-Saxon Language: An Introduction." The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture: Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach and Joel T. Rosenthal. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications. Studies in Medieval Culture 40 (1997): 37-71.
• Entries on Exodus and "Textual Editing: Old English." Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal. New York and London: Garland, 1998. 286-87 and 729-31.
• "F. J. Furnivall's Letter to the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Asking that the Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf Be Sent to London for the Use of Julius Zupitza." Notes and Queries 45 (1998): 267-72.
• "Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Nineteenth-Century: Denmark, England, America." A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 434-54.
• "Nota Bene: Preface to a Collection of Notes by Various Hands on Various Old English Texts." ANQ, 15.2, spring 2002. 3-7.
• " ' The Old English Epic of Redemption': Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective." The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings. Ed. Roy M. Liuzza. New York: Garland, 2002. 53-68.
• "Carl T. Berkhout: An Appreciation." Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout. Ed. Jonathan Wilcox. Old English Newsletter Subsidia, 32. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan U, Medieval Institute, 2004. 5-15.
• "Old English Exodus 390b: witgan larum." Notes and Queries 53 (2006): 17-21.
• Forthcoming
• Entries on Josephus (typescript 8 pages), Hegesippus/Pseudo-Hegesippus (typescript 7 pages), and Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus (typescript 17 pages). Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Ed. Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and Paul E. Szarmach. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton.
• "Three Studies on the Manuscript Text of Beowulf: Lines 47b, 747b, and 2232a" (39 pages). Beatus Vir: Manuscript Studies in Honor of Phillip Pulsiano. Ed. A. N. Doane and Kirsten Wolf.
• In Progress
• "Beowulf 1741a: we…"
• "Early Scholars and the Beowulf Manuscript" (book).