George Clark
George Clark took graduate degrees at Berkeley and Harvard, studied Old Norse informally with E. O. G. Turville-Petre and Peter Foote, and was tutored in Icelandic by people in Reykjavík and elsewhere in Iceland. Clark taught at the Universities of Wisconsin (Madison) and Texas (Austin) before taking root at Queen’s University at Kingston (Ontario, Canada) where he is now Professor Emeritus of English. In 1966-67 he was a visiting lecturer in Old and Middle English at the University of Helsinki. Clark has published papers on Chaucer, Robert Henryson, “The Battle of Maldon,” Beowulf, and Njáls saga and a book on Beowulf (with that title); his most recent publications are “Naming the Enemy and Identifying Ourselves: The Warriors of Maldon,” Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell D. Chickering, ed. John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager (2014); “Scandals in Toronto: Kaluza’s Law and Transliteration Errors,” The Dating of Beowulf, ed. Leonard Neidorf (2014); “A Voyage Round Egill Skallgrímsson,” Frederic Amory in Memoriam: Old Norse-Icelandic Studies, ed. George Clark and John Lindow (2015); “The Anglo-Saxons and Superbia: Finding a Word for it,” Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (2016).
Supervisors: Francis P. Magoun, Jr. , William Alfred, and Bartlett Jere Whiting
Supervisors: Francis P. Magoun, Jr. , William Alfred, and Bartlett Jere Whiting
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