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Sharon M. Rowley

Department of English

Sharon Rowley

Professor

McMurran Hall 209
(757) 594-8874
srowley@cnu.edu

Education

  • Ph D in Old English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
  • MA in English, University of Chicago
  • BA in English, Temple University

Teaching

Old and Middle English language and literature, Arthurian romance, dream visions, textual culture, early modern drama.

Research

The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, early English manuscripts, textual culture, Old and Middle English language and literature, Arthurian romance, dream visions, Shakespeare.

Biography

Dr. Sharon M. Rowley is Professor of English. Her scholarly interests include the reception and transmission of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica in the Middle Ages, Old and Middle English manuscripts and textuality, Old English prose, anonymous homilies and otherworldly visions. She has published articles on all of these topics, including ‘Textual Studies, Gender and Performance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, The Chaucer Review 38.2 (2003) and ‘Bede and the Northern Kingdoms’, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature, ed. Clare Lees, 2012. Her book, The Old English Version of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, was published by D.S. Brewer in 2011. She is currently working on a new critical edition of the Old English version of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica with Greg Waite (Otago, NZ), with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Selected Accomplishments

  • Research Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. (2024)
  • Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship, CNU. (2013)
  • Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge University. (2008)
  • Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. (2008)
  • Other
    (2024). Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (in Old English) (Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.3.18). Cambridge University Library. Volume, NA. Issue, NA. Pages, 3.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2024). “Hearing and Speaking in the Margins of CCCC MS 41”. The Old English Newsletter. Volume, 48. Issue, 1. Pages, np.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2023). Revisiting Bede’s Miracles: Earth, Water, and Healing in the Historia Ecclesiastica and Commentary on Genesis. University of Manchester Press. Volume, NA. Issue, NA.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2023). Key Thinkers: Bede. Bloomsbury. Pages, 33.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022). ‘Bishop Lyfing, Crediton and the Cultural Orbit of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41’. Yearbook of English Studies 2022: Literature to 1200. Volume, 52. Pages, 102-119.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2022). “Sources, Controversies and Silences: Bede, Muirchú, Patrick and Acgilbert”. Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland and Brepols. Volume, 32. Issue, na.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2021). “Constructing Early Medieval Winchester: Historical Narratives and the Compilation of British Library Cotton Otho B.xi”. Oxbow Books, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2021). Introduction to Writers Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts. Palgrave. Pages, 12.
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    (2021). Writers Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts. Palgrave. Pages, 412.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2020). "Parker Library MSS 41 and 286: Digitization as Translation”. Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (London: Routledge, 2020).
  • Book Review
    (2018). Review of Conor O'Brien, Bede's Temple: An Image and its Interpretation. Northern History. Volume, 54. Issue, 2. Pages, 4.
  • Encyclopedia Article
    (2017). Bede. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Pages, 7.
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    (2015). The Long Ninth Century: The Prose of King Alfred's Reign. Oxford Research Reviews.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2013). "Bede and the Northern Kingdoms". Cambridge University Press. Pages, 10,000 words.
  • Book, Scholarly-Revised
    The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. Boydell and Brewer, LTD. Pages, 383.
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    (2009). “The Role and Function of Otherworldly Visions in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum”. Peeters Publishers. Pages, 163-181.
  • Sharon Rowley, the History, Memory and Accomplishment, Constructions of Identity Conference, "“Bishop Lyfing, Crediton, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41”," Cluj. (2019)
  • Sharon Rowley, King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, "“Indeterminate Bones and Elemental Miracles in Early Medieval England”," King's College London. (2018)
  • Sharon Rowley, IONA: Early Medieval Studies on the Islands of the North Atlantic transformative networks, ""American/Medieval: Contemplating Frames"," Vancouver BC. (2018)
  • Sharon Rowley, Stanford Text Technologies Fourth Annual Collegium: Celebrating Parker 2.0, "Digitization as Translation," Stanford University. (2018)
  • Sharon Rowley, Winchester: An Early Medieval Royal City, "“Constructing Early Medieval Winchester: Historical Narratives and the Compilation of British Library Cotton Otho B.xi”," Winchester, England. (2017)
  • Sharon Rowley, "“Bishop Lyfing, Crediton, and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41”," Sponsored by CNU Faculty Senate
  • Sharon Rowley, Greg Waite, Carol Wyvill, "An Edition of the Old English Translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica," Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
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