Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Timothy O'Meara Professor of English
Chair of Department
Specialty
Old English language and literature, textual editing
Degrees
A.B., Thomas More College, Fordham University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Profile
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe specializes in the literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Her research focuses on cultural transmission, editing in manuscript cultures, and early medieval subjectivity. Her published books and collections include Visible Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Ms C, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001); Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, vol. 10 (Tempe: ACMRS, 2003); and most recently with Andy Orchard, Latin Learning, English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge. She is currently completing a book on identity and agency in Anglo-Saxon England. She has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and has received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship.
Recent Publications
"Goscelin and the Consecration of Eve." Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006): 251-70.
“Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency.” JEGP 106.2 (2006): 203-23.
"Edith's Choice." In Latin Learning, English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, II: 253-74.
Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronc Textual Editing. New York: MLA, 2006.
Recent Honors and Awards
Kaneb Faculty Fellow, 2005-2006
Presidential Award, University of Notre Dame, 2004
Director, NEH Summer Seminar, 2000
James I. Burns Graduate Teaching Award, 2000
Contact Information
356 O’Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
(574) 631-4702
Katherine.O.O'Keeffe.4@nd.edu