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Professor of English Language & Literature
Smith College
cradavis@smith.edu
Craig Davis teaches Old and Middle English, Old Norse and Medieval Celtic languages and literatures in the English department. He has also directed the Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature programs, teaching traditional epics—ancient, medieval and modern—from around the world.
Davis studied Welsh in Aberystwyth and Icelandic in Reykjavík before completing his doctorate in English at the University of Virginia.
His current project is titled, “Gothic Beowulf: The Northern Ethnography of the Nowell Codex,” a miscellany of five texts on the most distant peoples in space and time known to the Anglo-Saxons.
Another current project explores the formation and continuity of the La Tène civilization of ancient Gaul—its Old European, Indo-European, Etruscan, Greek and Roman roots.
Davis has held visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, twice at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and three times at Hamburg University in Germany.
“Recovering Germans: Teutonic Origins and Beowulf,” Kritikon Litterarum · American and English Studies 43.1-2 (2016): 125-142.
“Gothic ‘Immigrants’ in the Roman Empire,” in ‘Strangers in this World’: Multi-Religious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson and Alexander Y. Hwang (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015): 129-42.
“Arthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Olwen,” in Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations, ed. William W. Kibler and R. Barton Palmer (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 70-98.
“A Mother from Hell: Love and Vengeance in Beowulf,” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012), ed. Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison: 187-98.
“Theories of History in Traditional Plots,” in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen O. Glosecki (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS/Brepols, 2007): 31-45.
“An Ethnic Dating of Beowulf” (2006), which shared the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists' prize for best article in two years.
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