Hilary Fox

Faculty Profile

Associate Professor
fl2288@wayne.edu

Department

English

Office

5057 Woodward Ave. #10410.1

Selected publications

Monograph

The Incorporated Self in Early Medieval England (forthcoming from Medieval Institute Publications/DeGruyter, 2023)

 

Book chapters

"'Above the Head of a Serpent': Women and Anger in Anglo-Saxon England," in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, edited by Gale Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg-Heyer (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), pp. 126-141.

“An Ethical History for the Self in the Old English Boethius,” in The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The 'Consolation' and its Afterlives, ed. A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), pp. 71-88.

“The Talking Dead: Exhortations of the Dead to the Living in Anglo-Saxon Literature,” in Dealing with the Dead: Mortality and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Thea Tomaini (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 17-35.

“Langlandian Economics in James Yonge’s Gouernaunce: Translation and Ethics in Fifteenth-Century Dublin,” in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall, edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton et al. (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 251-70.

 

Journal articles
“Isidore of Seville and the Old English Boethius,” Medium Ævum 83 (2014): 49-59.

“Denial of God, Mental Disorder, and Exile: The Rex iniquus in Daniel and Juliana,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111 (2012): 425-50.

“The Aesthetics of Resurrection: Goldwork, the Soul, and the Deus artifex in The Phoenix,Review of English Studies 63 (2012): 1-19.

“The Mermedonian Computus,” Philological Quarterly 89:2,3 (2011): 141-57.

Research Description

I focus on Old, Middle English, and Latin literature, with concentrations in theory of mind, the history of emotion and mental illness, monstrosity, and theories of citizenship and ethics. My current major projects are a book on early English philosophy and a new, student-friendly, accessible edition of the anonymous early Middle English poem 'The Owl and the Nightingale.'

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