A. N. Doane

Professor of English

Alger N. Doane has been a professor in the English Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1971, and was Lecturer in the English Department of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1965-1971. Having taught a wide range of medieval, renaissance, Icelandic and Caribbean literature, as well as early English language, he retired in 2006.  He was director of English undergraduate studies 1996-2001 and director of Medieval Studies 2002-2006. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph.D in English from the University of Toronto.  He has received ACLS and NEH fellowships; from 1994 to the present he has managed a major project grant from the NEH Division of Access and Preservation for “Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile.” He was co-editor from 1994 and has been since 2000 editor-in-chief  of the series Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile which has produced 13 volumes to date, three of which he authored. He has recently completed a monograph with William P. Stoneman (Harvard University) on "Reception of  Anglo-Saxon in the Twelfth-Century: The Annotations in the Hexateuch."

Publications:

• Genesis A: A New Edition (Madison, 1978).
• The Saxon Genesis (Madison, 1991).
• Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages [with Carol B. Pasternack] (Madison, 1991).
• Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy (co-edited with Joan Hall
  and Dick Ringler, New York, 1992) .
• Books of Prayers and Healing, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Volume 1, (Binghamton, 1994).
• Anglo-Saxon Gospels, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Volume 3, (Binghamton, 1995).
• Articles on: OE poetics, Battle of Maldon, OE Riddles, Intertextuality and Orality, Charms, Ethnography of Scribal Writing, etc. (1996-2006).
• Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in Memory of Phillip Pulsiano (co-edited with Kirsten Wolf, Tempe AZ, 2006).

Teaching interests: Old English language and literature, Middle English literature, Chaucer, Caribbean literature, narrative theory.

Research Interests: Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, orality, editing theory, early medieval Bible, codicology.