Medieval Scandinavian topics [refereed and/or invited publications]

Viking Poems on War and Peace. A study in skaldic narrative. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991

Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets. Ed. Russell Poole. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000

“In Search of the Partar.” Scandinavian Studies 52 (1980): 264-77

“Compositional Technique in some Verses from Gunnlaugs saga.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 80 (1981): 469-85

“Ormr Steinþórsson and the Snjófríðardrápa.” Arkiv för nordisk Filologi 97 (1982): 122-37

“Darraðarljóð 2: örum hrælaðr.” Maal og Minne 1985: 87-94

“The Song of the Valkyries.” In Essays in Honour of Agathe Thornton. Ed. D. Little and R. Hankey. Dunedin: Department of Classics, U of Otago, 1985. 74-84

“The Origins of the Máhlíðingavísur.” Scandinavian Studies 57 (1985): 244-85

“Some Royal Love-verses.” Maal og Minne 1985: 115-31

“Skaldic Verse and Anglo-Saxon History: Some Aspects of the Period 1009-1016.” Speculum 62 (1987): 265-98

“The Cooperative Principle in Medieval Interpretations of Skaldic Verse.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 159-78

“Verses and Prose in Gunnlaugs saga.” In The Icelandic Sagas: A Collection of Essays. Ed. J.J. Tucker. New York: Garland, 1989. 160-84

“Orðræðan í konungakvæðum dróttskálda.” [“Skaldic Praise Poetry as Discourse”] Skírnir 164 (1990): 7-33

“Skaldic Praise Poetry as a Marginal Form.” In Atti del 12º Congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo. The Seventh International Saga Conference, Spoleto 4‑10 settembre 1988. Ed. Teresa Pàroli. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi Medioevo, 1990. 169-85

“Variants and Variability in the Text of Egill’s Höfuðlausn.” In The Politics of Editing Medieval Texts. Ed. Roberta Frank. New York: AMS P, 1993. 65-105

“Darraðarljóð”, “Gunnlaugr ormstunga”, “Lausavísur”, “Liðsmannaflokkr”, “Óttarr svarti”, “Sighvatr Þórðarson”. In Encyclopedia of Medieval Scandinavia. Ed. P. Pulsiano et al. New York: Garland, 1993. Pp. 121, 251-52, 382-83, 391, 459-60, 580-81

“Psycholinguistic principles in skaldic repetition.” In Sagnaþing helgað Jónasi Kristjánssyni sjötugum 10. apríl 1994. Ed. Gísli Sigurðsson et al. Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka bókmenntafélag, 1994. 2:669-78

“Composition Transmission Performance: The first ten lausavísur in Kormáks saga.” Alvíssmál 7 (1997): 37-60

“Introduction” and “The Relation between Verses and Prose in Hallfreðar saga and Gunnlaugs saga.” In Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets. Ed. Russell Poole. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000. 1-17 and 125-71

“The ‘Conversion Verses’ of Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld”, Maal og Minne, in press

“Myth, Psychology, and Society in Grettis saga”, Alvíssmál, in press

“Lof en eigi háð? The Riddle of Grettis saga Verse 14”, Saga-Book, in press.

Medieval English topics [refereed publications]

Old English Wisdom Poetry. Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature, 5. Cambridge: Brewer, 1998

“Henryson, Fables 2193.” Review of English Studies 35 (1984): 508-10

“The Textile Inventory in the Old English Gerefa.” Review of English Studies 160 (1989): 469-78

“Old English Riddles”, Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, Berlin: De Gruyter, in press

Topics in post-medieval English literature [refereed and/or invited publications]

“Cultural reformation and cultural reproduction in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 33 (1993): 859-74

“Constructions of Fate in Victorian Literature and Philology.” In Old Norse Studies in the New World: A Collection of Essays to Celebrate the Jubilee of the Teaching of Old Norse at the University of Sydney, 1943‑1993. Ed. Geraldine Barnes et al. Sydney: Department of English, U of Sydney, 1994. 110-19

“Reasons for Rhyme, Alliteration, and Wordplay: A Psycholinguistic Look At Poetic Composition and Reception.” In World and Stage. Essays for Colin Gibson. Ed. Greg Waite et al. Otago Studies in English, Dunedin: Department of English, University of Otago, 1998. 159-83

“Victorian Professionalism and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” In A Critical Companion to the Victorian Novel. Ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 263-75

“Kindred, College, and Scholarship in the Life-work of Bertha Surtees Phillpotts”, in Women Medievalists in the Academy, ed. Jane Chance. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, in press

“Two students of Boethius”, NZ Journal of French Studies, special issue in honour of Glynnis Cropp, ed. John Dunmore, in press

Topics in Written Communications [informal non-refereed presentations]

(with Jenny Lawn) “Tofu, Green Tea, and Alzheimer’s Disease: Critical Thinking as Quantitative Literacy in First-Year Composition for Information and Mathematical Science Students.” In The TWN Proceedings. Re/Searching Writing Horizons. Ed. Lisa Emerson and Grant Harris. Massey University. 1998. 2:66-80

(with Lisa Emerson) "'Why can’t we get it together?' Collaborative model(s) of writing instruction", School of English and Media Studies, Working Paper, 2. 2001

(with Lisa Emerson) “Academic and Workplace Literacy: Making the Connections”, in Built in, not Bolted on: Proceedings of the Workbase Conference, Auckland 31 October 2001

Translations

A History of Scandinavian Archaeology. By Ole Klindt-Jensen. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975 (from Danish)

(with Victor Hansen) “The Prosimetrum Form 1: Verses as the Voice of the Past.” By Preben Meulengracht Sørensen. In Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets. Ed. Russell Poole. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000. 172-90 (from Danish)

(with John Durbin) “The Relation between Verses and Prose in Bjarnar saga Hítdœlakappa.” By Edith Marold. In Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation, and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets. Ed. Russell Poole. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000. 75-124 (from German)

Reviews

Vincent O’Sullivan et al. Miracle and other recent New Zealand fiction. Islands 5.3 (1977): 312-14

Yvonne du Fresne. Farvel and other stories. Comment: A New Zealand Quarterly Review 11 (June 1980): 29‑30

Dan Davin. Selected Stories. Comment: A New Zealand Quarterly Review 15 (April 1982): 34‑35

Klaus von See. Edda, Saga, Skaldendichtung. Saga-Book 22 (1987): 83-85

Hermann Engster. Poesie einer Achsenzeit. Saga-Book 22 (1987): 93-95

Erik Gunnes. Regesta Norvegica I. Speculum 67 (1992): 420-21

Heather O'Donoghue. The Genesis of a Saga Narrative. Review of English Studies 164 (1993): 556-57

Régis Boyer. La Poésie Scaldique. Cahiers de Civilisation Mediévale 37.4 (1994): 372-73

Fran Colman, ed. Evidence for Old English: Material and Theoretical Bases for Reconstruction. Review of English Studies 166 (1995): 248-49

Carolyne Larrington. A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry. Review of English Studies 185 (1996): 69-70

Alois Wolf, ed. Snorri Sturluson. Kolloquium anläßlich der 750. Wiederkehr seines Todestages. Parergon 13.2 (1996): 298-300

Bruce Mitchell. An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England. Review of English Studies 189 (1997): 75-76

Kari Gade. The Structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt Poetry. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 96 (1997): 295-96

M.J. Toswell, ed. Prosody and Poetics in the early Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt. Review of English Studies 191 (1997): 375-76

Ian Wyatt and Jessie Cook, ed. Two Tales of Icelanders: Ögmundar þáttr dytts og Gunnars helmings; Ölkofra þáttr. Parergon 14.2 (1997): 257-59

Andy Orchard. The poetic art of Aldhelm. Parergon 14.2 (1997): 229-31

Ursula Dronke. Myth and Fiction in early Norse Lands. Parergon 15 (1998): 146-48

Ursula Dronke. The Poetic Edda. II. The Mythological Poems. Parergon 15 (1998): 148-50

Joseph Harris and Karl Reichl, ed. Prosimetrum: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse. Parergon 16 (1999): 240-43

Graham Tulloch, ed. Walter Scott, Ivanhoe. Parergon 17 (2000): 275-77

Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, ed. Beowulf. Parergon 17 (2000): 169-71

Diana Whaley, ed. The Poetry of Arnórr jarlaskáld. An Edition and Study. Speculum 76.2 (2001): 545-46

Marianne E. Kalinke, ed. Norse Romance. Parergon 18.2 (2001): 188-90

Guðrún Nordal, Tools of Literacy. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101 (2002) 417-19

Rolf Stavnem, Stroferne i Grettis Saga. Deres Funktion og Betydning. Skandinavistik, 32.1 (2002): 66-67

Heinrich Beck et al., ed. Studien zur Isländersaga. Alvíssmál (in press)

Margaret Clunies Ross, ed. Old Icelandic Literature and Society; Prolonged Echoes volume 2. Parergon (in press)

Dawn M. Hadley and Julian D. Richards, ed., Cultures in Contact: Scandinavian Settlement in England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Journal of English and Germanic Philology (in press)

Geraldine Barnes, Viking America. The First Millennium. Parergon (in press)

Preben Meulengracht Sørensen, At fortælle Historien… Saga-Book (in press)

Devra Kunin trans., A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr. Ed. Carl Phelpstead. (Viking Society for Northern Research, Text Series, 8.) London: Viking Society for Northern Research, University College London, 2001. Speculum (in press)

Margaret Clunies Ross, The Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy… Notes and Queries (in press)

“Lastword betst”: Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell…, ed. Carole Hough and Kathryn A Lowe. Notes and Queries (in press)

Investigation of poetic composition in Beowulf, Chaucer, and Spenser.

Editions of skaldic poems towards the new international edition of skaldic verse (http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/)

Studies on early Germanic metrics and the work of Eduard Sievers.

Studies on skaldic syntax.

Studies on the cultural dimensions of skaldic poetry, notably the oeuvre of Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld and Sigvatr Þórðarson.

Studies on Grettis saga.