CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
 

Office Telephone:	(217) 333-0067
Office Fax:	(217) 333-4321
Active email:	cdwright@uiuc.edu
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~cdwright/index.html

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Old English literature
Hiberno-Latin
Old and Middle Irish
Medieval Latin
 

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

Source of Wisdom: Studies in Old English and Early Medieval Latin in Honor of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Thomas N. Hall, and Frederick M. Biggs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007)

"Old English Homilies and Latin Sources," forthcoming in Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation: The Old English Homily, ed. Aaron J. Kleist (Turnhout: Brepols)

"Genesis A ad litteram," forthcoming in Old English Literature and the Old Testament, ed. Michael Fox and Manish Sharma (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)

"Vercelli Homily XV and The Apocalypse of Thomas," forthcoming in New Readings on the Vercelli Book, ed. Andy Orchard and Samantha Zacher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)

"From Monks' Jokes to Sages' Wisdom: The Joca monachorum: Tradition and the Irish Imacallam in da Thuarad," forthcoming in Spoken and Written Language: Relations between Latin and the Vernacular in the Earlier Middle Ages, ed. Mary Garrison and Marco Mostert (Turnhout: Brepols)

"Why Sight Holds Flowers: An Apocryphal Source for the Iconography of the Alfred Jewel and Fuller Brooch," in Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Its Insular Context in Honour of Eamonn O Carragain, ed. Alastair Minnis and Jane Roberts (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 169-86

"Why the Left Hand Is Longer (or Shorter) than the Right: Some Irish Analogues for an Etiological Legend in the Homiliary of St. Pere de Chartres," forthcoming in (Inter) Texts: Studies in Early Insular Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, ed. Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck (Tempe: MRTS, 2007)

" New Latin Source for Two Old English Homilies (Fadda I and Blickling I): Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo App. 125 and the Ideology of Chastity in the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform," in Sources of Wisdom, ed. Charles D. Wright, Thomas N. Hall, and Frederick M. Biggs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 239-65

"The Prouerbia Grecorum, the Norman Anonymous, and the Early Medieval Ideology of Kingship: Some New Manuscript Evidence,: in Insignis sophiae arcator: Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Michael Herren on His 65th Birthday, ed. Gernot Wieland and Carin Ruff (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), pp. 193-215

"The Persecuted Church and the Mysterium Lunae: Cynewulf's Ascension, ll. 252b-272 (Christ II, ll. 691b-711)," in Latin Learning and English Lore: Papers for Michael Lapidge, 2 vols., ed. Andy Orchard and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), II, 293-314
 

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Old English translations of Latin sources, especially homilies.

History of the Medieval Book:
Studies of early medieval Latin florilegia and homiliaries.

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:

Rebecca Starr, Gender, Women, and Families in Aelfric's First Series of Catholic Homilies
Shannon Godlove, "Christian Cultural Identity and the Discourse of Evangelism in Early English Literature"
Amity Reading, "Soul and Body: Anglo-Saxon Conceptions of the Self in the Vercelli Book Codex"
Stephane Clark, "Compelling God: Anglo-Saxon Prayers in Their Social Contexts"

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Two of my graduate students have made exchange visits, Rebecca Starr (to Leeds) and Rebecca Brackmann (to York). I have been faculty sponsor of two visitors to Illinois: Carolin Esser (York) and Laura Peelen (Utrecht). I am interested in future exchanges, and willing to sponsor other WUN PhD students who wish to visit Illinois
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Bibliography and Methods in Medieval Studies: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cdwright/www/medsyll.html

Old English
Beowulf
The Exeter Book
The Vercelli Book
The Junius Manuscript
Old Irish