Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Title: 
Emeritus
Biography: 

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

Current Research: 

I am working on questions of agency in early medieval culture, particularly in Old English prose and in the writings of Osbern of Canterbury and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. My next project looks at the work of miracle narratives in England in the decades after the Norman Conquest.

Selected Publications

Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

"Orality and Literacy." In Oral Literature of the Middle Ages, edited by Karl Reichl, 120-39. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012.

"Goscelin, the Liber confortatorius and the Library of Peterborough." In Poetry, Place and Gender: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honor of Helen Damico, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, 151-70. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009.

"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, vol. 2, edited by Patrizia Lendinara, 333-45. Udine: Forum, 2008.

"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.