Dr Greg Waite
BA (Otago) MA PhD (Toronto)
| greg.waite@otago.ac.nz | |
| Phone | 64 3 479 8629 |
| Fax | 64 3 479 8558 |
| Office | 1C7 First Floor Arts Building Albany Street Dunedin |
| English Department University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand |
Expertise
Old English, Middle English, Old Norse.
Teaching
ENGL 121 English Literature: A Survey
ENGL 214 Medieval Literature 1
ENGL 216 A Topic in English Language: History of the Language
Possible Supervision
Old English language, literature and history; late Middle English and early Modern English language and literature. Has supervised and is prepared to supervise Old English language, literature and culture; Old Norse; Middle English and early Modern English language.
Electronic database
A Textbase of Early Tudor English
Books
Fox, Alistair and Waite, Gregory. A Concordance to the Complete English Poetry of John Skelton. Cornell, Cornell UP (1987) 1004 pp.
Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: Tales Seven and Eight, Otago Studies in English 3, Department of English/University of Otago, 1993.
World and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson, ed. Greg Waite, Jocelyn Harris, Heather Murray and John Hale, Otago Studies in English 6, 1998. 288 pp.
Old English Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign. Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature 6. Cambridge: Brewer, 2000. xiv, 394 pp.
Articles include
'A Reconsideration of the Language of Beowulf,' with Angus Cameron and Ashley Crandell Amos, in The Dating of Beowulf. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1981. 33-76.
'Antedatings and Additions for OED from the Poems of John Skelton.' Notes and Queries 233:l5-25 (1988).
'The History of English: A Sketch' in How to Study Literature in English: A Guide for the Advancing Student, ed. Alistair Fox, third, revised edition, University of Otago Press, 1995, 131-155.
'An Elementary English Grammar' with Lenore Harty, in How to Study Literature in English: A Guide for the Advancing Student, ed. Alistair Fox, third, revised edition, University of Otago Press, 1995, 156-178.
'Studying a Medieval Author: Chaucer' with Colin Gibson, in How to Study Literature in English: A Guide for the Advancing Student, ed. Alistair Fox, third, revised edition, University of Otago Press, 1995, 179-194.
'The Presentation of Written Work' in How to Study Literature in English: A Guide for the Advancing Student, ed. Alistair Fox, third, revised edition, University of Otago Press, 1995, 225-240.
'Professional Note: The Early Tudor Textbase', in Early Modern Literary Studies 1, 1995, 1-15.
'Middle English Prayers and a Charm in a Dunedin Manuscript.' In World and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson. pp. 93-108.
Cummins, Nicola, Greg Waite and Andrew Higgins. 'English 121: The Chaucer Module: Multimedia CD-ROM on the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.' In Supporting the Learner through Open, Flexible and Distance Strategies: Issues for Pacific Rim Countries. Proceedings of DEANZ 2000 Conference held 27-29 April 2000, St Margaret's College, University of Otago. Dunedin, DEANZ (2000). 104-13.
'Taylor, Harold McCarter (1907-1995)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
'Approaching the Poet's Language: The Holograph Records of Skelton's English.' In John Skelton and Early Modern Culture. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 197. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2008), 123-155.
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