Aaron Kleist

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Dr. Aaron Kleist is a co-chair of the English Department at Biola University.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Old English Literature, University of Cambridge
  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University
  • B.A. in Literature, Taylor University

Affiliations

  • Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 2003 - present

    Affiliated Faculty, Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Honorary Invited Associate, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton, 2002 - present

  • Member, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 1999 - present
  • President, Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics, 1999 - present

Awards and Honors

  • Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Spring 2008
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, January-February 2008
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar Roster Candidate, Fall 2006 - Fall 2011 5 year appointment
  • Recognition of Faculty Excellence, Fall Faculty Conference, Biola University, Fall 2005
  • Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching, Biola University, 2004
  • Visiting Scholar, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, 2004
  • Honorary Research Associate, Department of ASNC, University of Cambridge, 2004
  • Invited Participant, Second Annual Symposium on the Alfredian Boethius Project, Oxford University, 2004
  • Nominated for Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004-2007
  • Fellowship, NEH Summer Seminar: Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts, British Library, 2001
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1997

Publications

Books

  • Ed. The Old English Homily: Precedence, Practice, and Appropriation. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. 534 pp.
  • Striving with Grace: Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England. Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press, May 2008. 542 pp.

Contributions to Books

  • The Influence of Clement of Alexandria on Anglo-Saxon England. Volume C, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Ed. Thomas N. Hall. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press (forthcoming 2008). 13 pp.
  • Matthew Parker, Old English, and the Defense of Priestly Marriage. Anglo-Saxon Books and Their Readers: Papers in Honor of Helmut Gneuss. Ed. Thomas N. Hall and D. G. Scragg. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications (forthcoming 2008). 30 pp.
  • “Educational Excellence.” Aaron J Kleist and Scott Rae. Centennial Conversations. Ed. Barry Corey and Gary Miller. Los Angeles: Biola UP (forthcoming 2008). 22 pp.
  • “Anglo-Saxon Homiliaries in Tudor and Stuart England.” The Old English Homily: Precedence, Practice, and Appropriation. Ed. Aaron J Kleist. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. 44-92.
  • “The Influence of Bede's De temporum ratione on Ælfric's Understanding of Time.” Time and Eternity: The Medieval Discourse. Ed. Gerhard Jaritz and Gerson Moreno-Riano. International Medieval Research 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003. 81-97.
  • “An Annotated Ælfrician Bibliography, 1983-1996.” Basic Readings on Old English Prose. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Garland, 2000. 503-52.

Journal Articles

“Anglo-Saxon Prose: 2005.” Aaron J Kleist, Nicole Discenza, and Andrew Scheil. Year's Work in Old English Studies. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. OEN 39 “The Ælfric of Eynsham Project: An Introduction.” The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 11, http://www.heroicage.org/ (forthcoming 2008). 45 pp. peer-reviewed academic journal

  • “The Ælfric of Eynsham Project: Editorial Approaches.” Dorothy Carr Porter and Aaron J Kleist. The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 11 (forthcoming 2008). 19 pp.
  • “Anglo-Saxon Prose: 2004.” Aaron J Kleist, Nicole Discenza, and Andrew Scheil. Year's Work in Old English Studies. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. OEN 38 (2007): 114-29.
  • “Monks, Marriage, and Manuscripts: Matthew Parker's Manipulation (question) of Ælfric of Eynsham.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 105 (2006): 312-27.
  • “Anglo-Saxon Prose: 2003.” Aaron J Kleist and Nicole Discenza. Year's Work in Old English Studies. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. OEN 37 (2004): 115-33.
  • “Anglo-Saxon Prose: 2002.” Aaron J Kleist and Nicole Discenza. Year's Work in Old English Studies. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. OEN 36 (2003): 119-32.
  • “Anglo-Saxon Prose: 2001.” Aaron J Kleist and Nicole Discenza. Year's Work in Old English Studies. Ed. Daniel Donoghue. OEN 35 (2003): 95-100.
  • “The Division of the Ten Commandments in Anglo-Saxon England.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 103 (2002): 227-40.
  • “Ælfric's Corpus: A Conspectus.” Florilegium 18 (2001 published 2002): 113-64.
  • “Condemned to Time: An Ælfrician View of Man and the Ages.” Responsio 1 (2001): 61-65.

Book Reviews

Professional Associations

  • Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, 2003 – present
  • Affiliated Faculty, Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky, 2005 – present
  • Honorary Invited Associate, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton, 2002 – present
  • Member, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 1999 – present
  • President, Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics, 1999 – present

Resources

Biola Faculty Page

Kleist's CV Document