Professor Emeritus
Department of English Language and Literature
Contact information:
Robert C. Rice, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
rrice@christendom.edu
Education
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles
M.A., D.A., University of Oregon, English
Ph.D., University of Oregon, English
Classes Taught
- Rhetoric and Composition,
- Composition and Critical Reading
- Literature of Western Civilization I-IV,C
- 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 the Rood
Hobbies
Trail-blazing, then maintaining The Christendom Trails, Runology
Areas of expertise
Old and Middle English language and literature; Germanic philology
Selected Scholarship
“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.
“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
Professional Affiliations
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