Professor Margaret Clunies Ross

BA (Adelaide); MA, BLitt. (Oxon.); FAHA; fil. dr. hc, University of Gothenburg; Fellow (arbetande ledamot) Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademi, Uppsala.
McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director, Centre for Medieval Studies
mcr@arts.usyd.edu.au
+61 2 9351 6832

• Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
• Anglo-Saxon (Old English) Studies
• Medievalism

• Old Norse-Icelandic Studies, especially Norse mythology, Old Norse-Icelandic poetry (especially skaldic verse), indigenous Norse poetic treatises and poetic theory, the Norse literature of fantasy.
• Medievalism, especially the influence of Old Norse poetry upon European literature and culture after the Renaissance.
• The history of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Gothic studies, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

• With Dr. Victor Hansen, an edition of the correspondence of Robert Jamieson (1772-1844), Scottish ballad collector and translator of Danish ballads. - Funded by a University of Sydney Sesquicentenary grant in 2003.
• Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages: a New Edition. This project, due for publication both electronically and in hard copy by Brepols from 2006-2011, is under the direction of five General Editors, of whom Margaret Clunies Ross is one, and has over 40 Contributing Editors. For further details, see the project website. - Funded by an ARC Discovery-Project grant 2002-6. Research Associate Dr. Tarrin Wills.
• A book on the Old Norse-Icelandic literature of fantasy (including, but not confined to, fornaldarsögur and riddarasögur) and mythic patterns to be discerned there. - Funded by an ARC Discovery-Project grant. Research Associate 2002-2003 Dr. Kate Heslop.

Books

• (with Amanda J. Collins) The Correspondence of Edward Lye, Publications of the Dictionary of Old English vol. 6. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, July 2004.
• Prolonged Echoes. Old Norse Myths in Medieval Northern Society, 1: The Myths and 2: The Reception of Norse Myths in Medieval Iceland. The Viking Collection 7 and 10. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994 and 1998.
• The Norse Muse in Britain, 1750-1820. Trieste, Edizioni Parnasso, 1998.
• Old Icelandic Literature and Society, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 42. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• The Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy. Making the Middle Ages 4. Turnhout, Brepols, 2001.
• Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Editors’ Manual. Diana Whaley, Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Gade, Edith Marold, Gu?rún Nordal and Tarrin Wills. 2nd. rev. edn. Sydney, Centre for Medieval Studies, 2002.
• Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society, ed. Margaret Clunies Ross. The Viking Collection 14. Odeuse, University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003.
• Supplement (25pp.) to Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2nd edn., Tarrin Wills, Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Gade, Edith Harold, Guthrun Nordal and Diana Whaley, 2004.

Forthcoming Publications

• A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics. Book on this subject under contract to Boydell & Brewer. Forthcoming March 2005.
  - Funded by an ARC Discovery-Project grant.
  - Publication subsidy from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
• 8 Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Forthcoming September 2004.
  Entries on: William Elstob, James Johnstone*, Edward Lye*, Michael Mailtaire, Owen Manning*, Edward Thwaites, Heury Weber*, Francis Wise* * with Amanda J. Collins

Teaching

• Old Norse-Icelandic language, literature and culture
• Norse mythology
• Old English language and literature
• The history of the English language
• Editing theory and practice
• English Studies as an academic discipline and its history, with an emphasis on the rise of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English studies
• The influence of Old Norse literature upon English literary movements, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Supervision

• Ms Phillipa Bright (PhD submitted August 2004; thesis is an edition of a selection of tales from the Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum)
• Dr. Tom Clark (PhD conferred April 2003; thesis on irony in Beowulf; associate supervisor with Mr. Alex Jones)
• Dr. Victor Hansen (PhD conferred May 2002; thesis on the Scottish ballad collector Robert Jamieson)
• Dr. Kate Heslop (PhD conferred November 2002; thesis on the role of skaldic verses in Íslendingasögur)
• Mr Peter Hupfauf (PhD to be conferred October 2004; thesis on early Scandinavian visual iconography)
• Mr. Craig Ronalds (PhD submission expected 2005; thesis on the pedagogy of Abbot Ælfric)
• Ms Kathy Watson (PhD commenced 2003; thesis on Thomas Warton’s representation of Old English language and literature in his History of English Poetry I (1774))
• Dr. Tarrin Wills (PhD conferred December 2001; thesis on the Old Icelandic Third Grammatical Treatise; associate supervisor with Dr. Judy Quinn until her move to Cambridge in September 2000; thereafter sole supervisor)