Joseph C. Harris
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Joseph C. Harris (born 1940)[1] is Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor in English and Research Professor of Folklore at Harvard University.[2]
Career
[edit]A scholar of Old English, Old Norse, folklore, and mythology, he earned a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1961, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1963 (with the support of a Marshall Scholarship), and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Old Icelandic literature (The King and the Icelander: a study in the short narrative forms of Old Icelandic prose).[3] He taught at Stanford and Cornell for thirteen years before returning to Harvard in 1985; he retired in 2012.[4]
Some of his major works include Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies (ed. with Barbara Hillers, 2012), ‘Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing’: Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris (2008),[5] and Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed. 1997).[6] Author of over 100 scholarly articles, he also contributed to Seamus Heaney's best-selling translation of Beowulf.[7]
His research has been supported by grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study,[1] the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation,[8] the American Council of Learned Societies,[9] the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Rockefeller Foundation.[4] He is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Gustavus Adolpus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Harris, J." NIAS. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Joseph Harris". medieval.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Emeriti - Harvard University Department of English". Harvard University Department of English. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Joseph C Harris - CV". harvard.academia.edu. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Islandica 53: "Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing": Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris". Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "RI OPAC". opac.regesta-imperii.de (in German). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ Klein, Mariel; Nicholls, Olivia (7 November 2013). "Students, Professors Celebrate Life of Seamus Heaney". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ "Joseph C. Harris". www.gf.org. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ "ACLS - American Council of Learned Societies". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
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