Gale Owen-Crocker
Gale Owen-Crocker (born 16 January 1947) is an emeritus professor of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture and medieval dress and textiles at the University of Manchester, England, and director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Early life and education
Gale Frances Owen was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, and earned a first class degree with honours in English language and literature from Newcastle University in 1968 and a PhD with a thesis on Anglo-Saxon dress in 1971, also from Newcastle.[1]
Career
After teaching at her former school and at Newcastle University while a student, Owen then took up a teaching position at the University of Manchester, where she remained until retiring in 2015. She became Gale Owen-Crocker upon her marriage in 1981.[2] She is now emeritus professor and remains Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.[3]
Owen-Crocker co-founded and edited the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.[4] She was editor-in-chief for Brill's Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1450 (2012).[3]
Owen-Crocker has published three monographs, and a collection of her papers on the Bayeux tapestry.
Bibliography
- Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981.[5]
- Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1986.
- Dress in Anglo Saxon England: Revised and Enlarged Edition. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004.[6]
- The Four Funerals in Beowulf: and the structure of the poem. Manchester: Manchester UP, St Martins Press, 2000.[7][8]
- The Bayeux Tapestry: Collected Papers. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
References
- ↑ Clegg Hyer, Maren (2016). "Introduction". In Clegg Hyer, Maren; Frederick, Jill. Textiles, Text, Intertext: Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker. Woodbridge, Suffolk / Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781783270736.
- ↑ Clegg Hyer, p. 2.
- 1 2 "Prof Gale Owen-Crocker - personal details". University of Manchester. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ Monk, Christopher (21 February 2015). "Celebrating Professor Gale Owen-Crocker". The Anglo-Saxon Monk. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ↑ Ellis Davidson, H. R. (1984). "Reviewed Work: Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons by Gale R. Owen". Folklore. 95 (1): 130. JSTOR 1259774.
- ↑ Hinton, D. A. (2005). "Dress in Anglo-Saxon England". The English Historical Review. 120 (489): 1350–1352. doi:10.1093/ehr/cei392. ISSN 0013-8266.
- ↑ Shippey, Thomas A. (2003). "Reviewed Work: The Four Funerals in "Beowulf": And the Structure of the Poem by Gale R. Owen-Crocker". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 102 (1): 134–36.
- ↑ Larrington, C. (2002). "Review: The Four Funerals in Beowulf". The Review of English Studies. 53 (209): 108–109. doi:10.1093/res/53.209.108. ISSN 0034-6551.