Thomas N. Hall
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialty
Religious literature of Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman England
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Profile
Thomas N. Hall works on the religious literature of Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman England. His current research includes an edition of the Latin sermons of Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) and studies of the manuscripts of Paul the Deacon’s Homiliary. He has edited Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2002) and has co-edited two essay collections entitled Anglo-Saxon Books and Their Readers (with D. G. Scragg) and Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honor of Thomas D. Hill (with Charles D. Wright and Frederick M. Biggs), both forthcoming from Western Michigan University Press. He is project director for Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture and lead bibliographer for the “Old English Bibliography” published annually in the Old English Newsletter.
Recent Publications
“Wulfstan’s Latin Sermons.” In Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, edited by Matthew Townend, 93-139. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
“The Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon Sermon Manuscripts.” In Old English Scholarship and Bibliography: Essays in Honor of Carl T. Berkhout, edited by Jonathan Wilcox, 83–104. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004.
“Old English Religious Prose: Rhetorics of Salvation and Damnation.” In Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature, edited by David F. Johnson and Elaine Treharne, 136–48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“A Palm Sunday Sermon from Eleventh-Century Salisbury.” In Latin Learning and 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: 180–96.
Recent Honors and Awards
NEH Grant (Collaborative Research Program--Scholarly Editions) for "A Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 25," 2006-2007
Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for the Humanities, 2004–2005
Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2003
Teaching Recognition Award, University of Illinois, Chicago, Council on Excellence in Teaching and Learning , 2001
Contact Information
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-7226
thall8@nd.edu