Philip A. Shaw
Philip A. Shaw is a British philologist at Durham University. He specializes in the languages and literatures of the Middle Ages, particularly Old Norse language and literature, and Old English language and literature. He is also an authority on Germanic religion. Shaw has written numerous works on these subjects.
Biography
Philip A. Shaw received his B.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D. in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Following postdoctoral work and a position as lecturer in Old and Middle English at the University of Sheffield, Shaw joined the School of English at the University of Leicester in 2009, where by 2021 he was associate professor in English Language and Old English. Shaw is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. During Shaw's time at Leicester, in the academic year 2020–21, the university closed its teaching of English Language and of medieval English literature, putting relevant staff at risk of redundancy. In autumn 2021, Shaw took up a lectureship in Medieval Literary Studies at Durham University.
Partonopeus de Blois: An Electronic Edition, 2006Texts and identities in the early Middle Ages, 2006The English Language: A Historical Introduction, 2009Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons, 2011Names and Naming in 'Beowulf': Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition,