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Professor

Positions:

Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences

overview

I specialize in Old English, Chaucer, the medieval mystics, William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis.

education and training

Ph.D. in Medieval English Literature, Rutgers University - (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States) 1978
M.Div. in Biblical Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States) 1973
B.A. in English, Rutgers University - (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States) 1970

selected publications

Academic Articles12

BOENIG, R. (2009). Julian of Norwich and the Art of Memory. Studies in Spirituality. 19(0), 25-34.
Timmons, P., & Boenig, R. (2007). The Miracles of the Virgin and Medieval Spin: Gonzalo de Berceo and his Latin Sources. Journal of Medieval Latin. 17, 226-237.
Boenig, R (2002). Scyld's Burial Mound. English Language Notes. 40(1), 1-13.
BOENIG, R. (2002). The Reification of Rolle's Mysticism. Studies in Spirituality. 12(0), 217-226.
Boenig, R. (2000). Chaucer and St Kenelm ('Nun's Priest's Tale'). Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature. 84(1), 157-164.

Books12

Boenig, R (2012). C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages.
Timmons, P., & Boenig, R. (2012). Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the virgin: A translation and a study.
Black, J., Conolly, L., Flint, K., Grundy, I., LePan, D., Liuzza, R., ... Waters, C (2009). The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1: The Medieval Period - Second Edition Volume 1: The Medieval Period. Broadview Press.
Boenig, R (2000). Anglo-Saxon Spirituality Selected Writings. Paulist Press.
Boenig, R., & Davis, K (2000). Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton. Bucknell University Press.

Chapters2

Boenig, R. E. (2015). The Apocalypse in Medieval England. Ryan, M. A. (Eds.), A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse. Brill Academic Publishers.
Boenig, R. E. (2014). Lloyd Alexanders Chronicles of Prydain: Imaging the American Child through a British Lens. Nelson, C., & Morris, R. (Eds.), Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..

editor of

Books3

(2012). The Canterbury Tales - Second Edition. Broadview Press.
(2013). The Canterbury Tales, A Selection - Second Edition A Selection. Broadview Press.
(2010). The wood beyond the world. Broadview Press.

awards and honors

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies conferred by Mythopoeic Society - (Altadena, California, United States) 2015

recent teaching activities

ENGL202 Environmental Literature Instructor
ENGL203 Hnr-writing About Literature Instructor
ENGL203 Writing About Literature Instructor
ENGL231 Survey Of English Lit I Instructor
ENGL330 Arthurian Literature Instructor

Email

[email protected]

First Name

Robert

Last Name

Boenig

mailing address

Texas A&M University; English; 4227 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-4227

USA

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