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Department of English
Stefan Jurasinski
Associate Professor
Interim Coordinator of Graduate Studies (Fall Semester 2008)
Department of English
Office: Hartwell 202C
Phone: (585) 395-5714
Email: sjurasin@brockport.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Indiana University, 2003
M.A. Indiana University, 2000
B.A. University of Maryland, 1998 (with departmental honors in English)
Teaching and Research Interests:
Old and Middle English
Old Icelandic
Old French
Medieval Canon Law
Medieval Secular Law
Linguistics and Philology
Book:
Ancient Privileges: Beowulf, Law, and the Making of Germanic Antiquity. Medieval European Studies 6. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006.
Reviews: Yearbook of English Studies 38 (2008): 252-3; Year’s Work in English Studies (2008), pp. 25-26; Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107 (2008): 511-13; Comitatus 36 (2007): 243-45.
Articles:
“The Continental Origins of Æthelberht’s Code.” Philological Quarterly 80 (2001): 1-15 [Appeared in 2002].
“Reddatur Parentibus: The Vengeance of the Family in Cnut’s Homicide Legislation.” Law and History Review 20 (2002): 157-180.
“The Rime of King William and its Analogues.” Neophilologus 88 (2004): 131-144.
“Beowulf 73: ‘Public Land,’ Germanic Egalitarianism, and Nineteenth-Century Philology.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103 (2004): 323-340.
“The Ecstasy of Vengeance: Legal History, Old English Scholarship and the ‘Feud’ of Hengest.” Review of English Studies n.s. 55 (2004): 641-61.
Review Article: Tim William Machan, English in the Middle Ages. Studia Neophilologica 76 (2004): 222-227.
“Andrew Horn, Alfredian Apocrypha, and the Anglo-Saxon Names of the Mirror of Justices.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 105 (2006): 540-563.
“The Feminine Name Wealhtheow and the Problem of Beowulfian Anthroponymy.” Neophilologus 91 (2007): 701-15.
“Germanism, Slapping, and the Cultural Contexts of Æthelberht’s Code: A Reconsideration of Chapters 56-58.” Haskins Society Journal 18 (2006): 51-71. [Appeared in 2007.]
“Treason and the Charge of Sodomy in the Lai de Lanval.” Romance Quarterly 54 (2007): 290-302.
“Caring for the Dead in The Fortunes of Men.” Philological Quarterly. [Forthcoming.]
“Slavery, Violence and Secular Law in Alfred’s Mosaic Prologue.” Anglo-Saxon. [Forthcoming.]
Commissioned Review and Articles:
“Sec. 7: History and Culture.” (With Mary Frances Giandrea and Elizabeth Rowe.) The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2002, edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza (= Old English Newsletter 37.2 [2004]). Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University.
“Sec. 7: History and Culture.” (With Mary Frances Giandrea and Elizabeth Rowe.) The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2003, edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza(= Old English Newsletter 38.2 [2005]). Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University.
“Sec. 7: History and Culture.” (With Andrew Rabin and Elizabeth Rowe.) The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2004, edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza (= Old English Newsletter 39.2 [2006]).Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University.
“Sec. 7: History and Culture.” (With Andrew Rabin, Elizabeth Rowe and Paul Kershaw.) The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2005, edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza (= Old English Newsletter 40.2 [2007]). Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University.
“Sec. 7: History and Culture.” (With Andrew Rabin and Elizabeth Rowe.) The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2006, edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza. [Forthcoming.]
Commissioned Review
John D. Niles, Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts. The Medieval Review. [Online publication: appeared in 2007.]
Work in Progress:
Stefan Jurasinski and R.D. Fulk, edd. The Old English Canons of Theodore. Edition with introduction, commentary, and glossary. [Completed.]
“Madness and Responsibility in Anglo-Saxon England.” To appear in Peace and Protection in the Medieval West, edd. David Rollason and Tom Lambert. [Volume is currently under submission.]
“Secular Law in the Old English Penitentials.” [In progress.]
“Marriage and Servitude in Anglo-Saxon England.” [In progress.]
Courses Taught:
Medieval British Literature
Old English
History of English
Chaucer
Critical Approaches to Literature
British Literature I
Shakespeare
Introduction to Graduate Studies
Introduction to Honors
College Composition
