PENNSTATE Altoona

	Name Title Educational Background College Division	Thomas R. Liszka Associate Professor of English Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, 1980 M.A., Northern Illinois University, 1973 B.A., Loyola University (Chicago), 1970 Altoona College Arts and Humanities
Office Room Number and Building Office Phone Number		128 CAC (814) 949-5201
Fax Number E-Mail Address		(814) 949-5368 trl1@psu.edu

Courses Taught

• Rhetoric and Composition
• Basic Writing Skillls
• Technical Writing
• Business Writing
• Advanced Business Writing
• Chaucer
• Medieval English Literature
• British Literature to 1798
• British Literature from 1798
• Masterpieces of Western Literature through the Renaissance
• Medieval Civilization
• History of the English Language
• Senior Seminar

Research Interests

• The South English Legendary
• Hagiography
• Manuscript Studies
• Bibliography
• Textual Criticism

Books

• Editor.  The Lambeth Text of the South English Legendary: A Selection Edited from MS Lambeth Palace 223.  Middle English Texts.  Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag.  (In progress.)
• Editor (with Lorna Walker).  The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe.  Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.  302 pages.
• Editor.  Index to Reviews of Bibliographical Publications: An International Annual.  Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Company.
•     Volume 10: 1985.  266 pages.  1991.  (Volume co-edited with Barbara L. Berman.)
•     Volume 9: 1984.  346 pages.  1989.
•     Volume 8: 1983.  332 pages.  1987.
•     Volume 7: 1982.  266 pages.  1985.
• Contributor.  Index to Reviews of Bibliographical Publications, ed. L. Terry Oggel.  Volume 4: 1979.  Troy: Whitston Publishing Company, 1982.  Volume 3: 1978; Volume 2: 1977; Volume 1: 1976.  Boston: G. K. Hall and Company, 1980, 1979, 1978.

Articles and Chapters

• “The Dragon in the South English Legendary: Judas, Pilate, and the ‘A(1)’ Redaction.”  Modern Philology, 100 (August 2002), 50-59.
• “The South English Legendaries” in The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe, ed. Thomas R. Liszka and Lorna E. M. Walker.  Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.  243-80.
• “Introduction” (with Lorna Walker) in The North Sea World in the Middle Ages: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe, ed. Thomas R. Liszka and Lorna E. M. Walker.  Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.  11-14.
• “Manuscript G (Lambeth Palace 223) and the Early South English Legendary” in The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment, ed. Klaus P. Jankofsky.  Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1992.  91-101.
• “The Laud. Misc. 108 Manuscript and the Early History of the South English Legendary.”  Manuscripta, 33 (July 1989), 75-91.
• “Formulating a Thesis for Essays Employing Comparison.”  College Composition and Communication, 38 (December 1987), 474-77.
• “The First ‘A’ Redaction of the South English Legendary: Information from the ‘Prologue’.”  Modern Philology, 82 (May 1985), 407-13.

Review          

• Essays on Chaucer’s Saints by Ann S. Haskell.  Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2 (1980), 165-67.

Poem

• “Ece Deor.”  Old English Newsletter, 9 (1976), 65.

Last Updated on 11/30/2002