Alaric Hall

Alaric Hall (born 1979) is a British philologist who is an associate professor of English and director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. He has, since 2009, been the editor of the academic journal Leeds Studies in English and its successor Leeds Medieval Studies.[1][2]

Alaric Hall
In 2021
Born1979
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Main interests
Notable works
  • Elves in Anglo-Saxon England (2007)

Biography

Hall received his B.A. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from the University of Cambridge, his M.Phil. in Medieval Studies from the University of Glasgow, and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Glasgow. His Ph.D. thesis was on elves in Anglo-Saxon England.[3]

He has subsequently become an associate professor of English and director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Hall researches and teaches the languages, cultures and history of Northwest Europe in the Middle Ages. He has written and edited several works on these subjects. Hall is also an authority on Icelandic language and literature.[4]

His 2007 book Elves in Anglo-Saxon England received positive academic reviews. The medievalist and Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey described the work as an "exceptionally thorough study", while the Tolkien scholar Dimitra Fimi called it a "solidly scholarly work, with meticulous discussion of philological matters, and also an open-minded (although strictly evidence-based) attempt to look at the bigger picture."[5][6][7]

Select bibliography

References
  1. Hall, Alaric, "Editorial Preface", Leeds Studies in English, n. s. 40 (2009), [iii].
  2. Hall, Alaric, "Editorial Note", Leeds Studies in English, n. s. 49 (2018), [iii].
  3. "Alaric's CV". Alaric Hall. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  4. "Dr Alaric Hall". University of Leeds. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  5. Shippey, Tom A. (2008). "Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity". The English Historical Review. CXXIII (502): 694–695. doi:10.1093/ehr/cen116. ISSN 0013-8266.
  6. Jolly, Karen (2008). "Alaric Hall, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity". Anglia. 126 (3): 537–540. doi:10.1515/angl.2008.072. ISSN 0340-5222.
  7. Fimi, Dimitra (2008). "Review of Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity". Folklore. 119 (3): 349–351. ISSN 0015-587X. JSTOR 40646474.
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