Faculty Directory - Bio
Scott Thompson Smith
Assistant Professor of English
Contact
211 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office phone: 814-865-0028
Email: sts12@psu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Notre Dame
M.A. in Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University
M.A. in English, Truman State University
Research interests
"Anglo-Saxon England; legal discourse, land tenure, and property dispute;
literacy in early medieval England; Anglo-Latin literature; Old Norse literature;
horror and the supernatural.
Publications
Of Kings and Cattle Thieves: The Rhetorical Work of the Fonthill Letter," JEGP 106 (2007): 447-467
“Marking Boundaries: Charters and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” in Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, edited by Alice Jorgenson (Brepols Press, forthcoming).
“Cnut,” in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Volume 5: Caesar to Pseudo-Cyril of
Jerusalem, ed. Thomas N. Hall (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), forthcoming.
“Preliorum maximum: The Latin Tradition of Brunanburh,” in The Battle of Brunanburh: A
Casebook, ed. Michael Livingston, Kalamazoo: TEAMS, forthcoming.
Translation, “The Latin Texts,” In The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, ed. Michael
Livingston, Kalamazoo: TEAMS, forthcoming.
Review of A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes, ed. Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing (Penn State Press, 2006), in Religion and Literature 39.2 (2007): 109-111.
He is currently at work on a book project on land tenure and property dispute in early medieval England and the circulation of legal language and tropes in various Old English and Anglo-Latin texts.
Recent Selected Presentations
“Culmination and Dissolution: the Edgar Poems in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,”
Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium, 12 July 2008.
“The Cult of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians,” 43rd International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 2008.
“Latin Diplomas and the Turn to Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.” International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, London 2007: Anglo-Saxon Traces, 31 July 2007.
“Storied Land: Writing History and Making Space in Narratives of Property Dispute.” MLA Conference 2006, Philadelphia, 27 December 2006.
Recent Course
ENGL 497 ‘Our Northern World’: Imagining the Germanic and Scandinavian Past (S09)
ENGL 083S Graphic Novels (F08)
ENGL 442 Medieval English Literature (F08)
ENGL 221 British Literature to 1798 (S08)
ENGL 522 Beowulf (S08)
ENGL 083S Weird Tales: Literature of the Supernatural and Fantastic (F07)
ENGL 521 Old English Language (F07)
