Department of English  
Faculty Information

Andrew Rabin



Assistant Professor
Old and Middle English Literature
Ph.D. from University of Chicago

Contact Information:

Office: Bingham Humanities Building, Room 336B
Phone: 502-852-1722
Email: andrew.rabin@louisville.edu

Office Hours for Spring 2007:
MW 3:30-5:30

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 101 - 64: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Fall, 2005)
ENGL 301 - 75: British Literature I (Fall, 2005)
ENGL 301 - 01: British Literature I (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 401 - 01: Honors Seminar (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 301 - 01: British Literature I (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 541 - 01: Studies in Old and Middle English Literature (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 313 - 01: British Literature from the Beginning through Shakespeare (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 624 - 75: Old English and Middle English Language and Literature (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 541 - 01: Studies in Old and Middle English Literature (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 310 - 04: Writing About Literature - WR (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 515 - 01: Introduction to Old English (Fall, 2008)
ENGL 310 - 02: Writing About Literature - WR (Fall, 2008)
ENGL 301 - 01: British Literature I (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 591 - 01: History of Criticism: Plato to the New Criticism (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 371 - 01: Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature (Fall, 2009)
ENGL 624 - 75: Old English and Middle English Language and Literature (Fall, 2009)
ENGL 301 - 01: British Literature I (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 491 - 01: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 491 - 02: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Spring, 2010)
ENGL 591 - 75: History of Criticism: Plato to the New Criticism (Spring, 2010)

Current Research & Teaching Interests:

Old English Language and Literature, Anglo-Saxon Law, History of the English Language, Middle English Literature, Medieval Theories of Language and Rhetoric

Recent Publications:

Articles
"'The Snare of Deceitful Thoughts': Reading Holofernes's Flynet in the Old English Judith," forthcoming from the Kentucky Philological Review.

"Old English forespeca and the Role of the Advocate in Anglo-Saxon Law," forthcoming from Mediaeval Studies.

"Bede, Dryhthelm, and the Witness to the Other World:
Testimony and Conversion in the Historia ecclesiastica,"
forthcoming from Modern Philology.

?The Wolf?s Testimony to the English: Law and the Witness in
the Sermo Lupi,? JEGP, v.105, no. 3 (2006).

"Historical Re-Collections: Rewriting the World Chronicle in Bede's De Temporum Ratione," Viator, v. 36
(2005).

 Reviews

"Catherine Cox, The Judaic Other in Dante, Chaucer, and the Gawain Poet," Modern Philology, v. 104, no. 4 (2007).

"Andrew Scheil, The Footprints of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England," Modern Philology, v. 103, n. 2 (November, 2005).

Other
?Ceawlin,? ?Distraint,? ?Edmund I,? "Entail," ?Escheat,? ?Fortescue, Sir John,? ?Glanvill, Ranulf de,? ?Godwine,? "Grand Assize," ?Maitland, Frederic William,? "Reichskammergericht," "Ripuarian Law," ?Sake and Soke,? ?Soke,? ?Textus Roffensis,? ?Toll and Team,? ?Wapentake,? and "Writs, Register of" in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

 ?History and Culture,? with Stefan Jurasinski and Elizabeth
Rowe, in The Year?s Work in Old English Studies, 2004, ed. R. M. Liuzza
and Daniel Donoghue, forthcoming in The Old English Newsletter.