Robert
C. Rice Professor
Chairman, Department of English Language and Literature
Where were you educated?
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles
M.A., D.A., University of Oregon ,
English
Ph.D., University of Oregon ,
English
What classes do you teach?
Rhetoric and Composition
Composition and Critical Reading
Literature of Western Civilization I, II, and III, IV
Classical and Early Christian Literature
Medieval English Literature
The Literature of Anglo-Saxon England
The Age of Chaucer
Literature of Medieval Christendom
History of Britain I
Renaissance English Literature
Shakespeare: Comedies & Romances
Shakespeare: Histories & Tragedies
Milton
English Romantic & Victorian Literature
History of the English Language
Old English (Language)
Western Artistic Heritage (with H. Reed Armstrong)
Special Topics in Literature: The Icelandic Sagas
Special Topics in Literature: Dostoevsky's Novels
Honors Seminar: The Dream of th Rood
What is your favorite class to teach?
Shakespeare's Histories & Tragedies and the Literature of Anglo-Saxon
England
Do you have any hobbies?
Trail-blazing, then maintaining The Christendom Trails, Runology
What do you like most about Christendom? Our academic community of faculty and students joyfully joined in
a common intellectual and spiritual enterprise grounded in the truth of
the Catholic faith; the fact that Christendom is more like a large Catholic
family than a mere institution.
What are your ares
of expertise and/or research?
Old and Middle English
language and literature; Germanic philology
Where
have you been published?
"The Dream
of the Rood and the Practice of Penitential Meditation, with a translation
of The Dream of the Rood," Faith and Reason XXX. Nos.
3 & 4 (Autumn and Winter 2005). 297-334.
Over 200 columns of
The Middle English Dictionary, Fascicles M-S, Ann Arbor: The University
of Michigan Press, 1976-1990.
"The Penitential Motif in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles
and in His Epilogues," Anglo-Saxon England 6 (1977)
"Hreowcearig 'Penitent, Contrite'," English Language
Notes 12, No. 4 (June, 1975)
"Sehnsucht and Joy," Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis
Society 4, No. 8 (June, 1973)
Assistant Editor.
Common Faith. Christendom Publications. numerous unsigned articles.
1981-82
Numerous book reviews, Reflections... The Wanderer Review of
Literature, Culture, the Arts, 1982-90; The University Bookman,
1997
Editorial Board, book reviews, Faith & Reason, Christendom
Press, 1982-current
What kind of professional
activities and associations are you active in?
The Association of Literary Scholars & Critics
The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
The Medieval Academy of America
National Association of Scholars
Contact information:
Dr. Robert C. Rice
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
W: 800.877.5456 ext. 1230
H: 540.635.3017
F: 540.636.1655
Office Location:
Madonna Hall #16
Office Hours:
2:00-4:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Where
have you been published?
