Assistant Professor of History
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Westley Follett, Ph.D.
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EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto 2002, Master of Arts in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto 1996, Master of Arts in History from the University of Toronto 1995, Bachelor of Arts in History from Brigham Young University 1994, Additional graduate and post-doctoral studies in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, 2001-2002. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi 2008 to present, LeConte Teaching Fellow of Medieval History and Temporary Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia 2004 to 2008, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, 2002 to 2003. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS Research interests Medieval European monasticism, hagiography, liturgy and devotion, Latin and Gaelic manuscript studies, Celtic studies Monograph Céli Dé in Ireland: Monastic Writing and Identity in the Early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History 23 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2006). Articles and book chapters “Archangelum mirum magnum: a Hiberno-Latin hymn attributed to Máel Rúain of Tallaght,” The Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (2009). “An Allegorical Interpretation of the Monastic Voyage Narratives in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae,” Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 2 (2007 [2009]). “Cassian, Contemplation, and Medieval Irish Hagiography,” ed. G. Wieland, C. Ruff, & R. Arthur, Insignis Sophiae Arcator: Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Michael Herren on his 65th Birthday, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 6 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publications, 2006), 87-105. “The Divine Office and Extra-Office Vigils among the Culdees of Tallaght,” The Journal of Celtic Studies 5 (forthcoming 2010), 81-96. Works in progress “The Cult of St. Michael the Archangel at Tallaght” “A Culdee perspective on women: the evidence of the Tallaght Memoir” Recent conference papers “‘The High-Seat of Irish Law in Ireland’: the late medieval Mac Egan school of Cluain Leathan and its library,” Annual meeting of the South Eastern Medieval Association, Vanderbilt University, October 2009 “A Ninth-century Latin Hymn in Honor of Saint Michael,” Forty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, May 2007 “The Earliest Evidence for Female Religious Life in Ireland,” Twenty-eighth Annual University of California Celtic Studies Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, March 2006 “CSI Ireland: Celtic Scribal Investigation, or what some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscripts can tell us about some ninth-century monks,” University of Georgia Medieval Studies Lecture Series, March 2005. |
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