Dr. Robert Upchurch

Dr. Robert Upchurch (Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2001) specializes in the study of Old and Middle English saints' lives.

Dr. Upchurch has published articles on a Middle English version of the Life of St. Alexius (Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2003), on Aelfric's preaching on marital celibacy (Traditio 2004), and on Aelfric's Old English lives of SS. Chrysanthus and Daria (Studies in Philology, 2004) and SS. Julian and Basilissa (Anglo-Saxon England, 2005). An article on SS. Cecilia and Valerian is forthcoming.

Saints' Lives from Middle English Collections, edited by E. Gordon Whatley with Anne Thompson and Dr. Upchurch appeared in 2004 in the Middle English Texts Series of the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages. Dr. Upchurch's book, Aelfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses (Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian, and Chrysanthus and Daria) with Modern English Parallel-text Translations will be published by the University of Exeter Press in December 2006 or January 2007.

He is participant in an NEH Collaborative Research Grant, "The Aelfric of Eynsham Project", directed by Aaron Kleist and was a participant in the NEH Summer Seminar,"Holy Men and Holy Women in Anglo-Saxon England," at the University of Cambridge's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, and Corpus Christi College (Parker Library) (2006). He is also the recipient of an A. A. Heckman Research Stipend for research on medieval manuscripts at the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN (2003), and a Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship for research at St. Louis University (2003).

Dr. Upchurch is currently working on a book-length study tentatively entitled For God and Country: Aelfric's Program of Pastoral Care.

Office: Language Building, Room 408G
Phone: 940.565.2161
Email: robertu@unt.edu