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Dr Paul Russell

Reader in Celtic

 

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Paul Russell

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Department of ASNC
Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Office: S-R35 (+44-1223-767312), email: pr270@cam.ac.uk

Departmental/College Responsibilities

  • Director of Studies in ASNC for Pembroke, Peterhouse, Fitzwilliam, and Trinity Hall.
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Supervision of graduate students in Medieval Welsh language and literature and in Celtic philology
  • Principal Investigator, Early Irish Glossaries Project (AHRC funded), 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2009
  • Teaching in Welsh (Part 1, Paper 7, Part II, Paper 7 (including medieval Cornish and Breton), Textual Criticism (Part II, Paper 10), and Celtic Philology (Part II, Paper 12)

Academic Interests (teaching and research)

Celtic philology and linguistics; early Welsh orthography; middle Welsh translation texts; medieval Welsh law; early Irish glossaries.

Selected Publications (since 2001)

  • ‘Poets, Power and Possessions in Medieval Ireland: Some Stories from Sanas Cormaic’, in Law, Literature and Society, ed. J. Eska, CSANA Yearbook 7 (Dublin, 2008), pp. 9-45.
  • ‘Read it in a Glossary’: Glossaries and Learned Discourse in Medieval Ireland, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures 6 (Cambridge, ASNC: 2008). ISBN 978-0-9554568-6-2. Pp. 32 [Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture 2007].
  • (with Alex Mullen) Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain (Cambridge, ASNC: 2007). http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/
  • Tair Colofn Cyfraith: The Three Columns in Welsh Law, The Welsh Legal History Society, V (2005), joint-editor with T. M. Charles–Edwards (Bangor: The Welsh Legal History Society, 2007). ISBN 0-9541637-4-5. Pp. xiv + 334
  • ‘The Arrangement and Development of the Three Columns Tractate’, in Teir Colofn Cyfraith, ed. Charles–Edwards and Russell, pp. 60-91.
  •  ‘Y Naw Affeith: Aiding and Abetting in Welsh Law’, in Teir Colofn Cyfraith, ed. Charles–Edwards and Russell, pp. 146-70.
  •  ‘The Three Columns of Law from Latin D (Oxford, Bodley, Rawlinson C 821)’, pp. 213-37.
  • ‘The names of Celtic origin’, in The Durham Liber Vitae, London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII, ed. D. and L. Rollason, 3 vols (London, 2007), II, pp. 5-8.
  • ‘Commentary: A. Personal names: A.1 Celtic names’, in The Durham Liber Vitae, London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII, ed. D. and L. Rollason, 3 vols (London, 2007), II, pp. 35-43.
  • ‘The history of the Celtic languages of the British Isles’, in Language in the British Isles, ed. D. Britain (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 185-99.
  • Contributor to Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopaedia, ed. J. T. Koch, et al., 5 vols (ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, 2006), Cormac mac Cuillennáin (p. 487), Glossaries (pp. 821-2), Gruffudd ap Cynan (pp. 852-3), the Irish language (pp. 985-93), Llyfr Du o’r Waun (pp. 1175-6), Sanais Cormaic (p. 1559).
  • (with Pádraic Moran) Early Irish Glossaries Database (Cambridge, ASNC: 2006).              http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
  • ‘VILBIAM (RIB 154): kidnap or robbery?’, Britannia 37 (2006), 363-7.
    Vita Griffini filii Conani. The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, ed. and transl. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005). ISBN 0-7083-1893-2. Pp. xiv + 222
  • ‘Quasi: bridging the etymological gap in early Irish glossaries’, in A Companion in Linguistics. A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, ed. B. Smelik, R. Hofman, C. Hamans, D. Cram (Nijmegen: Draak, 2005), pp. 49-62.
  • ‘“What was best of every language”: the early history of the Irish language’, in A New History of Ireland, vol. 1, ed. D. Ó Cróinín (Oxford, 2005), pp. 405-50.   
  • ‘Welsh *cynnwgl and related matters’, Studia Celtica 39 (2005), 181-8.
  • The Prologues to the Medieval Welsh Lawbooks (Cambridge, ASNC: 2004). ISBN 1-904708-03-X. Pp. x + 21.
  • A Bibliography of Medieval Welsh Literature for Students (Cambridge, ASNC: 2004). ISBN 0-9532172-99. Pp. 71.
  • Entries for the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford. 2004) [Cellach, Cormach mac Cuillennáin, Donatus of Fiesole].
  • ‘Old Welsh Dinacat, Cunedag, Tutagual: fossilised phonology in Brittonic personal names’, in Indo-European Perspectives  in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, ed. J. H. W. Penney (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 447-60.
  • Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh,editor (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003). ISBN 1891271105. Pp. viii + 221.
  • ‘Rowynniauc, Rhufoniog: the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh’, in Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003), pp. 25-47.
  • (with A. Falileyev) ‘The dry-point glossess in Oxoniensis Posterior’, in Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003), pp. 95-101.
  • ‘Texts in contexts: recent work on the Mabinogi’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 45 (2003), 59-72.
  • Contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & MacMillan: Dublin, 2003) [articles on Celtic languages (p. 178), Cormac mac Cuillennáin (p. 240), Goidelic in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man (p. 445), Ptolemy's map of Ireland (p. 902)].
  • ‘Patterns of Hypocorism in Early Irish hagiography’, in Saints and Scholars. Studies in Irish Hagiography, ed. J. Carey, M. Herbert, P. Ó Riain (Four Courts, Dublin, 2001), pp. 237-49.