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Andrew Scheil

Andrew Scheil

English 110K Lind Hall
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Old English language and literature
  • literatures and cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
  • medieval Latin literature
  • Middle English literature
  • literary theory
  • traditions of exegesis, historiography and geography in the Middle Ages
  • science-fiction, fantasy, and horror literature

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1996.
  • M.A. : English, University of Toronto, 1991.
  • B.A.: English and Hisory, Rutgers University, Henry Rutgers Scholar, 1990.

Publications

  • "The Historiographic Dimensions of Beowulf: Scheil, Andrew, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, forthcoming.
  • The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England. Scheil, Andrew, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Author, 2004. Link
  • Babylon and Anglo-Saxon England." : Scheil, Andrew, Studies in the Literary Imagination; special topic issue: Imagined Realities: Meaning and Textuality in the Middle Ages, 36.1 , 2003.
  • "Bodies and Boundaries in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt: Scheil, Andrew, 2000, Neophilologus, 84 .
  • "Anti-Judaism in Aelfric's Lives of Saints: Scheil, Andrew, Anglo-Saxon England, 28 , 1999.
  • "Somatic Ambiguity and Masculine Desire in the Old English Life of Euphrosyne: Scheil, Andrew, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory and Medieval Studies, 11.2 , 1999.
  • "John Keats, 'To Autumn' and Spenser's Despair: Scheil, Andrew, The Explicator, 58.1 , 1999.
  • Scheil, Andrew, Modern Language Review, the Medieval Review, Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, Journal of Medieval Latin.

Awards

  • McKnight Presidential Fellow, 2007 - 2010
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007 - 2008

Courses Taught

  • Old English I
  • Old English II
  • Textual Analysis
  • Shakespeare
  • Monsters, Marvels and the Uncanny in the Western Tradition (honors)
  • Survey of Medieval English Literature
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