Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Professor

Office: 427 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-2769

Email: kobok@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

Old English language and literature, textual editing

Current Research

I am currently completing a book on agency and obedience in Anglo-Saxon England.

Professional Statement

I specialize in the literary culture of Anglo-Saxon England. My research focuses on cultural transmission, editing in manuscript cultures, and early medieval subjectivity.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

“Inside, Outside, Conduct and Judgment:  King Alfred Reads the Regula pastoralis,” in 'Un serto di fiori in man recando':  Scritti in onore di Maria Amalia D'Aronco, ed. Silvana Serafin and Patrizia Lendinara. 2 vols. Udine: Forum, 2007.  

"Goscelin and the Consecration of Eve." Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006): 251-70.

“Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency.” JEGP 106.2 (2006): 203-23.

"Edith's Choice." In Latin Learning, English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard. 2 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, II: 253-74.

Lou Burnard, Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, and John Unsworth, eds. Electronc Textual Editing. New York: MLA, 2006.

Office Hours

MW  1-3

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