Joseph C. Harris (born 1940)[1] is Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor in English and Research Professor of Folklore at Harvard University.[2]

Career

A scholar of Old English, Old Norse, folklore, and mythology, he earned a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1961, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1963 (with the support of a Marshall Scholarship), and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Old Icelandic literature (The king and the Icelander; a study in the short narrative forms of Old Icelandic prose).[3] He taught at Stanford and Cornell for thirteen years before returning to Harvard in 1985; he retired in 2012.[4]

Some of his major works include Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies (ed. with Barbara Hillers, 2012), ‘Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing’: Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris (2008), and Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed. 1997). Author of over 100 scholarly articles, he also contributed to Seamus Heaney's best-selling translation of Beowulf.[5]

His research has been supported by grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study,[1] the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation,[6] the American Council of Learned Societies,[7] the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Rockefeller Foundation.[4] He is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Gustavus Adolpus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden.

References

  1. 1 2 "Harris, J." NIAS. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Joseph Harris". medieval.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Emeriti - Harvard University Department of English". Harvard University Department of English. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Joseph C Harris - CV". harvard.academia.edu. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Klein, Mariel; Nicholls, Olivia (7 November 2013). "Students, Professors Celebrate Life of Seamus Heaney". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Joseph C. Harris". www.gf.org. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "ACLS - American Council of Learned Societies". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
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