Philip A. Shaw

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Philip A. Shaw
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Discipline
  • Anglo-Saxon studies
  • Germanic studies
  • Old Norse studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester
Main interests
Notable works
  • Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World (2011)

Philip A. Shaw is a British philologist who is Associate Professor of English Language and Old English at the University of Leicester.

Biography[]

Philip A. Shaw received his B.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D. in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.[1][2] Following postdoctoral work and a position as lecturer in Old and Middle English at the University of Sheffield,[3] Shaw joined the School of English at the University of Leicester in 2009, where he is now Associate Professor in English Language and Old English. Shaw is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He specializes in the languages and literatures of the Middle Ages, particularly Old Norse language and literature, and Old English language and literature. He is also an authority on Germanic religion. Shaw has written numerous works on these subjects.[4]

Select bibliography[]

  • (Edited with Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Catherine Hanley and Mario Longtin) Partonopeus de Blois: An Electronic Edition, 2006
  • (Edited with Richard Corradini, Christina Pössel and Rob Meens) Texts and identities in the early Middle Ages, 2006
  • (With Charles Barber and Joan C. Beal) The English Language: A Historical Introduction, 2009
  • Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons, 2011
  • Names and Naming in 'Beowulf': Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), ISBN 9781350145764

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Ethan Doyle, 'An Interview with Dr. Philip A. Shaw', Albion Calling (19 December 2014).
  2. ^ Philip Andrew Shaw, 'Uses of Wodan: The Development of his Cult and of Medieval Literary Responses to it' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2002).
  3. ^ Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, The English Language: A Historical Introduction, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. v..
  4. ^ "Dr Philip A. Shaw". University of Leicester. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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