The Dictionary of Old English was recently awarded two major grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
A two-year SSHRC Insight Grant will be used for the hire of a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Emily Clarke, who will assist the DOE editors in drafting entries in addition to pursuing her own research on pedagogy and exegesis in the writings of Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham. Dr. Clarke recently completed her PhD in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. Her article on “The Tabernacle and Theophany in Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s Enchiridion and Computus” has recently been published in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours.
The DOE, in collaboration with Drs. Mark Faulkner and Elisabetta Magnanti of Trinity College Dublin, was also awarded a three-year Partnership Development Grant for the joint project Data Engineering for Old English. The funds from this grant will be used to hire another postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Kyle Smith, who recently completed his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His doctoral research explored connections between poetic riddles and the Psalms in early medieval England. Additionally, while at UW he served for several years as contributing and then associate editor of Old English Poetry in Facsimile, producing digital editions of a wide range of Old English poems accompanied by annotated manuscript images.