Dr Christine Rauer
Reader
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 462686
- cr30@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 31
- Location
- Castle House
- Office hours
Biography
Having received my BA and MA from Leeds and my PhD from Cambridge (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Emmanuel College), I held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and taught at the University of Birmingham, before joining the staff at St Andrews in 2002.
Research areas
Old English language and literature, Insular Latin literature, Old Norse literature; the literary history of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly non-English influences (Continental, Celtic, Scandinavian), hagiography, Beowulf, martyrologies.
I am a medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist (in the widest sense a literary historian) with a particular interest in multi-discplinary work. My research has mainly concentrated on the relationship of Old English literature with Continental, Celtic and Scandinavian cultures and Latin literature (classical, patristic and medieval). I am also interested in the history of the English language, with particular focus on vocabulary. My most recent research project focuses on the literary history of early Mercia and the earliest English prose.
I have supervised doctoral theses on infernal imagery in Old English literature, the language of Anglo-Saxon sanction clauses, death imagery in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, versions of the Bible, and exegetical traditions in Anglo-Saxon England. My students have received the George Buchanan Scholarship, the Ewan and Christine Brown Postgraduate Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities, the SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship, the Fulbright Scholarship, and other funding. I would welcome applications (or informal enquiries) regarding doctoral work on any aspect of Old English language and literature, Anglo-Latin literature, the history of the English language, early medieval source study, early English hagiography, and the literary history of Mercia.
Personal websites:
Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography
I regularly teach on the following modules:
- EN2003 Medieval and Renaissance Texts
- EN3111 Beowulf
- EN4311 Old English Poetry
- EN4399 Dissertation
- EN5015 Reading the Medieval Text
- EN5017 Old English Language
- EN5018 Middle English Literature in Context
- CO2001 Good and Evil
- MS5101 Approaches to Medieval Studies
And for background, here an interview from 2019.
Selected publications
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Nunne in early Old English: misogyny in its literary context
Rauer, C., Jul 2020, Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey. Momma, H., Clegg Hyer, M. & Zacher, S. (eds.). Cambridge: D S Brewer, p. 159-171 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Early Mercian text production: authors, dialects, and reputations
Rauer, C., Oct 2017, In : Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. 77, 3-4, p. 541-558Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Anglo-Saxon Hagiography
Rauer, C., 2017, Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature. Hadfield, A. (ed.). New York: Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Other contribution
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Mann and gender in Old English prose: a pilot study
Rauer, C., Jan 2017, In : Neophilologus. 101, 1, p. 139-158Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Old English Martyrology
Rauer, C., 2016, (Accepted/In press) Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Echard, S. & Rouse, R. (eds.). Wiley-BlackwellResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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The Old English martyrology and Anglo-Saxon glosses
Rauer, C., 2016, Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England. Stevenson, R. & Thornbury, E. V. (eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 73-92 20 p. (Toronto Anglo-Saxon series; no. 22).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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Errors and Textual Problems in the Old English Martyrology
Rauer, C., 2013, In : Neophilologus. 97, 1, p. 147-64Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology
Rauer, C., 2013, Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England. Szarmach, P. E. (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 13-29Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter
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The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary
Rauer, C. (ed.), 2013, Cambridge: D S Brewer. 416 p.Research output: Book/Report ? Scholarly edition
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Direct Speech, Intercession, and Prayer in the Old English Martyrology
Rauer, C., 2012, In : English Studies. 93, 5, p. 563-571Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article