Scott Gwara: Department of English Language and Literature

“Anglo-Saxon Schoolbooks,” in The Cambridge History of the Book, vol. 1, ed. R. Gameson (Cambridge, 2009).

“Gloss, Commentary” and various other entries for The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork.

“The Dissemination of Aldhelm’s Prosa de virginitate,” commissioned for The History of English Lexicographers, Ashgate, 2008 (8000 words).

“The Foreign Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg,” 79 pp., forthcoming in Traditio.

Publications

“Beowulf 3074-75: Beowulf Appraises His Reward,” Neophilologus 92 (2008), 333-38.

"Forht and Fægen in The Wanderer and related Literary Contexts of Anglo-Saxon Warrior Wisdom," Mediaeval Studies 69 (2007), 255-98.

“A Possible Arthurian Epitome in a Tenth-Century Manuscript from Cornwall,” Arthuriana 17 (2007), 1-7.

with Barbara Bolt, “A ‘Double Solution’ for Exeter Book Riddle 51, ‘Pen and Three Fingers,’” Notes and Queries n.s. 54 (2007), 16-19.

Review essay of Rochelle Altman, Absent Voices: The Story of Writing Systems in the West (New Castle, DE, 2004) in Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 100 (2006), 125-34.

De raris fabulis, ‘On Uncommon Tales’: A Glossed Latin Colloquy-Text from a Tenth-Century Cornish Manuscript, Basic Texts for Brittonic History 4, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (University of Cambridge, 2005). Pp. 33.

Education in Wales and Cornwall in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries: Understanding De raris fabulis, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures on Mediaeval Welsh History 4, Cambridge: Hughes Hall & Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (University of Cambridge, 2003, 2004). Pp. 37.

“Diogenes the Cynic in the Scholastic Dialogues Called De raris fabulis,” American Notes and Queries 17 (2004), 3-6.

“The Hermeneumata pseudodositheana, Latin Oral Fluency, and the Social Function of the Cambro-Latin Dialogues Called De raris fabulis,” in Grammar and Rhetoric: From Classical Theory to Medieval Practice, ed. Carol Dana Lanham, London: Continuum Books, 2002, pp. 109-38.

Review essay of M. Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform (Cambridge, 1999) in Studi Medievali 41 (2000), 713-23.

“The Transmission of the ‘Digby’ Corpus of Bilingual Glosses to Aldhelm’s Prosa de virginitate,” Anglo-Saxon England 27 (1998), 139-68.

“Second Language Acquisition and Anglo-Saxon Bilingualism: Negative Transfer and Avoidance in Æfric Bata’s Latin Colloquia, ca. 1000 AD,” Viator 29 (1998), 1-24.

“New Old English Words from Dry-Point Aldhelm Glosses: menniscbær and ellenmod,” American Notes and Queries 11 (1998), 5-7.

“Canterbury Affiliations of London, British Library MS Royal 7 D.xxiv and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 1650 (Aldhelm’s Prosa de Virginitate),” Romanobarbarica 14 (1997), 359-74.

“Glosses to Aldhelm’s Prosa de virginitate and Glossaries from the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age, ca. 670-800,” Studi Medievali 38 (1997), 561-645.

“Ælfric Bata’s Manuscripts,” Revue d'histoire des textes 27 (1997), 239-55.

“Newly Identified Eleventh-Century Fragments in a Bagford Album, now London, Brit. Lib. MS Harley 5977,” Manuscripta 38 (1997), 228-36.

“Further Old English Scratched Glosses and Merographs from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 326 (Aldhelm’s Prosa de Virginitate),” English Studies 78 (1997), 201-36.

with John Nelson, “Botanical Taxonomy and Buggery in Browning's ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,’” American Notes and Queries 10 (1997), 30-32.

“A Metaphor in Beowulf 2487a: guðhelm toglad,” Studies in Philology 93 (1996), 333-48.

“A Record of Anglo-Saxon Pedagogy: Aldhelm’s Epistola ad Heahfridum and its Gloss,” Journal of Medieval Latin 6 (1996), 84-134.

“Dry-Point Glossing in a Tenth-Century Manuscript of Aldhelm’s Prose Treatise on Virginity,” Traditio 51 (1996), 99-145.

“His Master’s Voice: Late Latin in the Milan Glosses,” Glotta: Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache 73 (1995), 142-48.

“Doubles Entendres in the Ironic Conclusion to Aldhelm’s Epistola ad Heahfridum,” Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi 53 (1995), 141-52.

“An Onomastic Pun in a Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Poem,” Medium Aevum 63 (1994), 99-101.

“The Continuance of Aldhelm Studies in Post-Conquest England and Glosses to the Prosa de Virginitate in Hereford, Cath. Lib. MS P.I.17,” Scriptorium 48 (1994), 18-38.

“Manuscripts of Aldhelm’s Prosa de Virginitate and the Rise of Hermeneutic Literacy in Tenth-Century England,” Studi Medievali 35 (1994), 101-59.

“Unpublished Old English Inked Glosses from Manuscripts of Aldhelm’s Prosa de Virginitate,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 95 (1994), 267-71.

“Three Acrostic Poems by Abbo of Fleury,” Journal of Medieval Latin 2 (1992), 203-31.

“Satire or ‘Bettellyrik’? Horatian Reflexes in Hugh of Orléans’ Post Rabiem Rixe,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 27 (1992), 211-27.

“Three Unpublished Prayers from AM MS 655 4o XXIII,” Mediaeval Studies 53 (1991), 177-96.

“Old English helm, hamel, healm: Three Lexical Problems in Glosses to Aldhelm’sProse de Virginitate,” Notes and Queries 235 (1990), 144-52.

“Aldhelm's Ps and Qs in the Epistola ad Ehfridum,” Notes and Queries 234 (1989), 290-93.

“Gluttony, Lust and Penance in the B-Text of Aislinge Meic Conglinne,” Celtica 20 (1988), 53-72.

Paolo Gatti, Un glossario bernense (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, A. 91 [18]): Edizione e commento, Trento: Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, 2001 in Speculum 78 (2003), 1291-2.

Duo Glossaria: Anonymi Montepessulanensis Dictionarius (Le Glossaire Latin-Français du Ms. Montpellier H236. Ed. Anne Grondeux; Glossarium Gallico-Latinum (Le Glossaire Français-Latin du Ms. Paris lat. 7684. Ed. Brian Merrilees and Jacques Monfrin. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Medievalis, series in quarto II. Lexica Latina Medii Aevi 2. Ed. Brian Merrilees and Jacques Monfrin. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998. Pp. 1-271, in Speculum 78 (2003), 507-9.

Peter Stotz, Handbuch zur lateinischen Sprache des Mittelalters, Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000, in Speculum 78 (2003), 267-70.

R. B. C. Huygens, Ars edendi: A Practical Introduction to Editing Medieval Latin Texts, Turnhout: Brepols, 2000, in Speculum 78 (2003), 531-3.

David Howlett, Cambro-Latin Compositions: Their Competence and Craftsmanship, Dublin, 1998, in Speculum 76 (2001), 472-4.

H. Gneuss, Books and Libraries in Early England (Aldershot, 1996) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 93 (1999), 279-281.

M. Richter, Die altenglischen Glossen zu Aldhelms De laudibus virginitatis in der Handschrift BL, Royal 6 B.vii (Munich, 1996) in Speculum 74 (1999), 820-22.

Andy Orchard, The Poetic Art of Aldhelm (Cambridge, 1994) in Speculum 73 (1998), 877-79.

L. Crinelli and A. Fantoni, Treasures from Italy's Great Libraries (New York, 1997) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 92 (1998), 349-51.

Andy Orchard, The Poetic Art of Aldhelm (Cambridge, 1994) in Notes and Queries 242 (1997), 244.

Burt Kimmelman, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages, Studies in the Humanities 21 (New York, 1996) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 91 (1997), 429-30.

D. Scragg & P. Szarmach, Editing Old English Texts (Woodbridge, 1994) in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (1995), 351-53.

Nigel Ramsey, Margaret Sparks and Tim Tatton-Brown, edd., St. Dunstan: His Life, Times and Cult, (Woodbridge, 1992) in Journal of Medieval Latin 4 (1994), 209-13.

Brita Larsson, Johannes Magnus' Latin Letters: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary, Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 3 (Lund, 1992) in Scandinavian Studies 35 (1993), 583-85.

Theodore M. Andersson and William Ian Miller, Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga saga and Valla-Ljóts saga (Stanford, 1989) in Scintilla 7 (1990), 52-4.

Papers Delivered

“One Passage from the Alfredian Meters of Boethius Minus Four Cardinal Virtues Equals Two Germanic Vices Illustrated in Six Old English Poems” (Forty-Second Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2007).

"Praising and Appraising Heroic Deeds: Kingly Generosity in Beowulf” (University of South Carolina Medieval Studies Colloquium, April 2007).

"Hengest and Beowulf in the 'gidd' of Finnesburh," International Conference on Medieval Studies, 2004.

"Education in Dark Age Wales and Cornwall: Understanding De raris fabulis," Fourth Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture, Cambridge University (2003).

"An Innovative Summer Course Designed for Pre-Service and In-Service Language Arts Teachers," 2003 Professional Development Schools National Conference, Orlando (2003).

"University Arts and Sciences Interaction in the High School Setting: Issues of Instructional Diversity," Annual Conference of the National Network for Educational Renewal, Denver (2001).

"Enhancing Partnerships: Finding Common Ground in the Midst of Diversity and Change," Annual Conference of the National Network for Educational Renewal, Denver (2001).

"Insular Paleography and the History of Uncial Script," North and South: Identity, Imagination and Memory in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Columbia, SC (2001).

"Bilingual Competence in Pre-Conquest England: Lexical Simplification and Reading Strategies in the Comprehension of Latin," International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Notre Dame, IN (1999).

"Old English Scratched Glosses and Latin Literacy in Pre-Conquest England," Internationale Fachkonferenz Mittelalterliche volkssprachige Glossen, Bamberg (1999).

"The Moral Instruction of Boys in the Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Monastery," Medieval Academy of America (1998).

"Glosses to Aldhelm's Prose De virginitate and Glossaries from the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age, ca. 670-800," International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (1997).

"Aspects of Medieval Pedagogy: Second Language Acquisition and Competence in Latin Among Speakers of Old English," Thirty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1997).

"Old English Substrate in Æfric Bata's Tenth-Century Latin Idiom," SAMLA (1995).

"Genre in Old English and the Latin Context of OE giedd," Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC (1995).

"The Origin and Transmission of Glosses to Aldhelm of Malmesbury's Epistola ad Ehfridum," Twenty-First St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis (1994).

"The Origin and Transmission of the Old English and Latin Glosses to Aldhelm of Malmesbury's Prosa de Virginitate," Medieval Academy of America, Knoxville (1994).

"The Rise of Aldhelm Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon England and Manuscripts of the Prosa de Virginitate," Medieval Association of the Pacific, Seattle (1994).

"Latin Literacy in Tenth-Century England: Contemporary Glosses to 'Curriculum' Texts as Evidence of Reading Comprehension and (Mis)interpretation," Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (1993).

Honors and Major Grants

B. H. Breslauer Foundation, Grant for purchase of a Cistercian Sermon Miscellany ($46,000)
South Carolina Humanities Council, Major Grant: “Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections” ($8000)
University of South Carolina, Arts Institute: “A Mass for the Masses: A Performance of Machaut by the Zephyrus Medieval Quartet” ($3500 incl. dept. match)
University of South Carolina Honors College, Hewlett Grant for Inquiry
University of South Carolina, Venture Fund Grant: "Editing Scratched Glosses in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts"
University of South Carolina, Research and Productive Scholarship Grant: "Echoic Glossing in Anglo-Saxon Sources as a Strategy for Learning Latin"
Mellon Fellowship, Yale University and the University of Toronto, 1987-89, 1992-93
Open Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1989-92
Marshall Scholarship, University of Cambridge, 1984-86
Centre for Medieval Studies, Travel Grant in Aid of Research, 1991
Associates of the University of Toronto Research Fund, 1991
Dame Bertha Phillpotts Research Grant, University of Cambridge, 1985
Corpus Christi College Travel Grant in Aid of Research, 1985
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Award for Research, 1985
Phi Beta Kappa, Hamilton College, 1984
George A. Watrous Prize in Literary Criticism, Hamilton College, 1984
Willard Bostwick Marsh Prize Scholarship, Hamilton College, 1984
Benjamin Walworth Arnold Prize Scholarship, Hamilton College, 1980-82

Scott Gwara

Professor

Office: 316 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2094
gwaras@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Specialization Areas

Recent Courses

Current Research Project(s)

Publications

Papers Delivered

Honors and Major Grants

Scott Gwara

Professor

Office: 316 Humanities Office Building (803) 777-2094 gwaras@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Specialization Areas

Recent Courses

Current Research Project(s)

Publications

Papers Delivered

Honors and Major Grants

Office: 316 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2094
gwaras@mailbox.sc.edu