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Graeme Davis

Dr Graeme Davis (born 1965[1]) is an author, editor and academic researcher,[2] as well as an associate lecturer with The Open University. He is a specialist in mediaeval language and literature, with interests in the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Iceland, Greenland and the North Atlantic. Publications include Germanic linguistics and dialectology, mediaeval history of the North Atlantic Region, English literature criticism (John Milton, T S Eliot, Geoffrey Chaucer, J K Rowling, Dan Brown) and genealogy. Additionally he has supported the academic development of English studies at the University of Basrah, Basra, Iraq.[3] Davis received a PhD from University of St. Andrews, and has taught at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Northumbria.[4]

He and Karl Bernhardt are the editor of the linguistics monograph series Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics[5] and Studies in Historical Linguistics.[6] With Karl Bernhardt he is editor of The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics[7] and previously editor of three refereed on-line journals on linguistics, language and literature issued between 2002 and 2006. The journals were Journal of Language and Learning, Journal of Language and Linguistics and Journal of Language and Literature.[8]

[edit] Selected Books

In Germanic Linguistics and Dialectology:

  • The Word-Order of Aelfric. Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
  • The Word Order of Old High German. Co-authored with Karl A. Bernhardt. Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
  • Comparative Syntax of Old English And Old Icelandic: Linguistic, Literary And Historical Implications. Peter Lang, 2005.
  • Syntax Of West Germanic: The Syntax Of Old English And Old High German, Goeppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik nr 697, 2002.
  • Dictionary of Surrey English: A Revised Edition of Granville Leveson Gower's 1893 A Glossary of Surrey Words, Peter Lang, 2007.[9]
  • West Country English, London: Abson Books (2008).[10]
  • Home Counties English. London: Abson Books (2007).[11]

In History and Genealogy:

  • Your Family Tree Online, Oxford: How To Books, 2009.
  • Research Your Surname and Your Family Tree, Oxford: How To Books, 2010.
  • Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland. Edinburgh: Birlinn (Tuckwell Press), 2007). [12] Review.[13][14]
  • Vikings in America. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008. Interview.[15]
  • A Brit in Iceland, Shakespeare Centre Press 2004, also an earlier version on-line as blog.[16]

In Literature Criticism:

  • The Unauthorized Harry Potter Quiz Book: 165 Questions Ranging from The Sorcerer's Stone to The Deathly Hallows. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books LLC, 2008.
  • Re-read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Today! An Unauthorized Guide. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books LLC, 2008.
  • Re-read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Today! An Unauthorized Guide. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books LLC, 2008.
  • Exploring Beedle the Bard. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books LLC, 2008.
  • The Lost Symbol: Found. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books LLC, 2009.
  • John Milton's Paradise Lost in 999 Words (What Everyone Should Know). Kindle, 2010.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .
  2. ^ http://linguistlist.org/people/personal/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=59450
  3. ^ (joint editor) "University of Basrah Studies in English", Peter Lang, 2008.
  4. ^ Mellen Press
  5. ^ http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchSeriesResult.cfm&vSeriesID=CSDL&vLang=E
  6. ^ http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vSiteName=SearchSeriesResult.cfm&vSeriesID=SHL&vLang=E
  7. ^ http://www.bjll.org/
  8. ^ http://www.jllonline.co.uk/
  9. ^ http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=11081&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=3
  10. ^ http://www.absonbooks.co.uk/
  11. ^ http://www.absonbooks.co.uk/titles/homecounties-English.htm
  12. ^ http://www.birlinn.co.uk/book/details/The-Early-English-Settlement-of-Orkney-and-Shetland-9780859766876/
  13. ^ http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/anglosaxons.htm
  14. ^ http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/shetlandtimes/content_details.asp?ContentID=26537
  15. ^ http://www.medievalists.net/2009/12/23/interview-with-graeme-davis/
  16. ^ Graeme Davis. "Graeme's Iceland Blog: The Blog of a Trip to Iceland June to August 2003". blogspot.com. http://graemeiceland.blogspot.com/. 

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