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Anthony Adams

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 304
Phone: (401) 863-2111

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 1210 - S01: History of the English Language -- CRN 15823
  •   ENGL 2360C - S01: Beowulf -- CRN 15824
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0400D - S01: Violence, Sacrifice, and Medieval Narrative -- CRN 25661
  •  ENGL 1360H - S01: Seminar in Old English Literature -- CRN 25662

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2008
M.A. University of Toronto, 2000
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1992

Research Interests
Medieval and comparative literature, especially Old English, Old Norse, and Medieval Latin; philology and the history of English; psychoanalytic and aesthetic theory; poetic difficulty; textual criticism.

Professional Accomplishments
Adams is currently working on finishing his first book, Discors machina: Violence, Trauma, and Narrative in Medieval Literature, an examination of the ways that medieval narratives are animated, structured, and disrupted by scenes of sacrifice. He has also begun work on a new edition and translation of Walther von Speyer's Vita et passio sancti Christophori. He has written on King Alfred's prayerbook, Old English and Carolingian poetry of war, the Middle English Charlemagne romances, the Pardoner's Tale, and Beowulf, and published (with A. G. Rigg) the first complete English translation of the ninth-century poem Bella Parisiacae urbis in the Journal for Medieval Latin. Before coming to Brown, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.