Faculty Profile
Dr. Rebecca Brackmann, Assistant Professor of English
Email: rebecca.brackmann@LMUnet.edu
Phone: 423.869.7111
Office: 206 Avery Hall
Education
and Background
Degrees:
PhD, English with Medieval Studies concentration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
MA, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
BA, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1997
Research and Teaching Areas
Medieval and Renaissance English Literature
History of the English Language
Scholarly Highlights
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- (Book) The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English.
- Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
- (Article) Laurence Nowell’s Edition and Translation of the Laws of Alfred.
- Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 14 (2010). Online.
- (Article) Laurence Nowell’s Old English Legal Glossary and His Study of Quadripartitus.
- English Law before Magna Carta: Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Ed. Stefan Jurasinski et al. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. 251-272.
- (Article) ‘Ond for cyning mæraþ’: The Political Dimension of the Old English Phoenix.
- Kentucky Philological Review 24 (2010): 13-19.
- (Article) ‘Dwarves Are Not Heroes’: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writing.
- Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 109/110 (2010): 85-106.
- (Article) Laurence Nowell’s Old English Glosses in Howlet’s Abcedarium: In the Margins of Early Modern Lexicography.
- Anglo-Saxon Books and Their Readers: Studies in Honor of Helmut Gneuss. Ed. Thomas N. Hall and Donald Scragg. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2008.
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