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John D. Niles
Professor Emeritus of English
University of Wisconsin –Madison
and University of California – Berkeley
Department of English
University of Wisconsin - Madison
600 N Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
jdniles@wisc.edu
Welcome to my personal home page. This site is meant to be of use to anyone interested in my background, interests, and career.
NEW ON THIS SITE:
Click here for NEWS about the Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists that was hosted in Madison, WI, July 31-August 6, 2011. Photos from the conference and its related excursions are available at that site.
A volume of critical essays, “Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination,” based on presentations made at that conference, is currently in preparation, co-edited by Stacy Klein, Jonathan Wilcox, and myself.
Renewed excavations at Lejre, Denmark, during 2008-2009 have revealed yet another cluster of buildings of Iron Age and Viking Age date. Among the loose finds, of particular interest is a small figurine that appears to represent the god Odin seated on his high seat, flanked by a pair of ravens. Click here for NEWS about this remarkable discovery, which was made at a place whose legendary associations with the Beowulf story are well known.
REGULAR FEATURES OF THIS SITE:
Curriculum Vitae offers an outline of my academic career, my teaching experience and specialties, my higher degrees, some awards I have received, and my professional affiliations.
Publications lists in six categories my books, editions, essays, and works in progress.
Courses gives information about some courses I have taught.
Research Tools provides access to
several research tools or bibliographies relating to my academic
specialties. For the moment it posts a bibliography of
landmark publications in the early history of Old English studies, together with
a bibliography of modern scholarship on the historical development of
Old English studies.
Besides having taught in the Department of English, I have been affiliated with four
other academic units at UW-Madison:
Celtic Studies
jdniles@wisc.edu
Updated:07-May-2012