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Morgan Davies

Professor of English

Department/Office Information

English and Creative Writing
406 Lathrop Hall
  • T 1:00pm - 3:00pm (406 Lathrop Hall)
  • R 11:30am - 12:30pm (406 Lathrop Hall)

Contact

(315) 228-7158

Professor Morgan Davies is a Professor of English at 含羞草研究所. His specialties include Medieval English, Welsh and Irish languages; literature and culture; the history of the English language, Old English literature, Old and Middle Irish literature, and Middle Welsh literature.

BA, Stanford University
MA, University of California, Los Angeles
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

NEH Fellowship for College Teachers 1995

Medieval English, Welsh, Irish Language, Literature and Culture; History of the English language

Old English Literature, Old and Middle Irish Literature, Middle Welsh Literature

  • "Dafydd Ap Gwilym and the Friars: The Poetics of Antimendicancy," Studia Celtica 29 (1995): 237-55.
  • "'Aed I'r Coed I Corri Cof': Dafydd Ap Gwilym and the Metaphorics of Carpentry," Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies  30 (1995): 67-85.
  • "Protocols of Reading in Early Irish Literature: Notes on Some Notes to Orgain Denna Rig and Amra Coluim Cille," Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 32 (1996): 1-23.
  • "Kings and Clerics in Some Leinster Sagas," Eriu 47 (1996): 45-66.
  • "Plowmen, Patrons, and Poets: Iolo Goch's Cywydd y Llafurwr and Some Matters of Wales in the Fourteenth Century," Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 24 (1997): 51-74.
  • Review of John T. Koch, The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain (Cardiff: U Wales P, 1997), Speculum 76 (2001): 479-82.
  • Review of Richard J. Kelly and Ciar谩n L. Quinn,  Stone, Skin, and Silver: A Translation of the Dream of the Rood (Cork: Litho Press, 1999), Speculum 77 (1999): 202-4.
  • Review of Varese Layzer, Signs of Weakness: Juxtaposing Old Irish Tales and the Bible, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 321 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), Speculum 78 (2003): 555-7.
  • "The Death of Dafydd ap Gwilym," in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Traditions: Studies in Honor of Patrick K. Ford, ed. Joseph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones, Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 3-4 (2003-4) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005): 55-73.
  • "Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Shadow of Colonialism," in Medieval Celtic Literature and Society, ed. Helen Fulton (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005) 248-74.
  • "The Rhetoric of Gwilym Ddu's Awdlau to Sir Gruffydd Llwyd," Studia Celtica 40 (2006): 155-72.
  • "The Somewhat Heroic Biography of Brandub Mac Echach," in Essays on the Early Irish King Tales, ed. Dan M. Wiley (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008) 170-212.
  • Review of Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones, eds., Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales, The New Middle Ages (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Speculum.