Carin Ruff
Program in Medieval Studies and Department of English
250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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(Brief CV at the English Department site)

Areas of research and teaching:

• Medieval Latin (especially Anglo-Latin) and Old English language and literature
• History of linguistics and language pedagogy in the early Middle Ages
• Manuscript studies, especially glossography
• History of the book

Recent courses:

• Survey of Medieval Latin Literature (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)
• Constructing the Book, Reconstructing the Text (Fall 2007)
• Writing about Literature: Shakespeare's History Plays (Spring 2007)
• Topics in Medieval Latin Literature: The Latin Troy Tradition (Spring 2007)
• Latin Paleography (Fall 2006)

Future courses:

• Survey of Medieval Latin Literature (Fall 2008)
• Writing about Literature: Shakespeare's History Plays (Fall 2008)
• NEW COURSE! Topics in Medieval Latin Literature: Post-Classical Latin Verse and Versification (Spring 2009)
• Latin Paleography (Spring 2009)

Research in progress:

• The Timescape of Anglo-Saxon Historical Narrative (book in progress)
• The syntax of OE be + body part (article in progress)
• Syntactical categories in pre-Carolingian Latin pedagogy (article in progress)
• Old English for Reading,  a teaching grammar of Old English (completed; under revision)
• Inventory of syntactically-glossed manuscripts (database under development)