• Gary Holland
• Kathryn Klar
• Daniel F. Melia
• Esther O'Hara
• Annalee C. Rejhon
• Kim Starr-Reid
• Eve Sweetser

Gary Holland

email: gholland@berkeley.edu

Interests

Old Irish, Continental Celtic, Celtic and Indo-European Linguistics

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Kathryn Klar

email: kkestrel@berkeley.edu

Degrees

A.B., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1971
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1973
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Linguistics) 1977

Teaching

Modern and Medieval Welsh Language and Literature; Old and Middle Irish; Medieval Welsh Poetry and Law; Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym; Modern Celtic Cultures and Folklore; Celtic Romanticism; Celtic Literature; Celtic Christianity.

Research Interests

Celtic Specializations: Modern and Medieval Welsh Language and Literature; Celtic Linguistics; Cornish; Celtic Culture; Celtic Christianity; the Celtic Revival.

Native American Languages and Linguistics Specializations: California Indian languages, especially the Chumashan family; prehistoric contact between Polynesia and the Americas; deep linguistic relationships in the Americas.

Current Projects

Continuing investigation of linguistic evidence for prehistoric contact between Polynesia and the Americas.

Ella Young and other Celtic Revival figures in America.

Discovery and study of previously unknown early letters of Edward Sapir to John P. Harrington. Preparing to publish them.

Working on a full-scale intellectual biography of American linguist and ethnologist John P. Harrington, with particular emphasis on Harrington's conceptual framework and an assessment of his work's long-term importance to anthropological studies (in the broadest sense).

Selected Publications

• (Co-editor, with Terry L. Jones) California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Papers from a March 2004 Society for California Archaeology Symposium on recent work in California prehistory. In press. Altamira Press, June 28, 2007.
• (First author, with Terry L. Jones) "Linguistic Evidence for a Prehistoric Polynesia-Southern California Contact Event." Anthropological Linguistics 47.4 (Winter 2005)
• (With Terry L. Jones) "Diffusionism Reconsidered: Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Polynesian Contact with Southern California." American Antiquity 70.3: 457-484.(July 2005)
• "Finck, Franz Nikolaus (1867-1910)." Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford 2006, Vol. 4:467
• "Harrington, John Peabody (1884-1961)." Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford 2006, Vol. 5:215.
• "O'Rahilly, Thomas Francis (1882-1953)." Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford 2006, Vol. 9:71.
• "Ventris, Michael (1922-1956)." Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford 2006, Vol. 13:399.
• "Poetry and Pillowtalk" in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition, Joseph F. Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones eds. CSANA Yearbook 3. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.

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Daniel F. Melia

email: dmelia@berkeley.edu

Degrees

A.B. Harvard College (English, MCL) 1966
Ph.D. Harvard University (Celtic Languages and Literatures) 1972

Teaching

Old and Middle Irish languge and literature; History of the Celts, Celtic Culture; Celtic Folklore; Classical and Medieval Rhetoric; Oral and traditional narrative.

Research Interests

Medieval narrative; orality; Celtic philology.

Current Projects

Editing 8th cent. Irish glosses on the Epistles of St. Paul; completing digitized index of the corpus of medieval Irish law; book on interpreting middle Irish saga.

Selected Publications

• Index to the Corpus Juris Hibernici (six vols. ed. by D.A. Binchy); a computer-generated orthographic index to be published by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry, Vol. 2, with D. Calder, R. Bjork, and P. Ford, (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1983).

• "Congruent Desires: Medieval and Modern Reconstructions of Irish and Welsh Literary Artifacts," in Reinventing the Middle Ages, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1998.
• "On the Origins of LU's Marginal .r." in A Celtic Florilegium, Essays in Memory of Brendan O'Hehir, Celtic Studies Publications, 1996.
• "Further Remarks on Marginal .r." Celtica XXI (1990) 332-37.
• "A Poetic Klein Bottle," in Celtic Language; Celtic Culture: A Festschrift for Eric Hamp (Los Angeles: Ford & Bailie, 1990) 187-98.
• "St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1988), Vol.10, pp. 619-20.
• "A Computer-Assisted Index of the Corpus Juris Hibernici," in Proceedings of the North American Congress of Celtic Studies, 1986 ed. by Gordon W. MacLennan (Ottawa: Univ. of Ottawa, 1987) pp. 133-56.

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Esther O'Hara

Teaching

Old Irish Language

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Annalee C. Rejhon

office: 4415 Dwinelle, phone: 642-2638

email: cymraeg@berkeley.edu

Degrees

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (French) 1979

Teaching

Medieval and Modern Welsh Language and Literature, Medieval Arthurian Literature including the Grail legends, Medieval Celtic Culture, Mythology (Celtic, Norse and Greek).

Research Interests

Medieval French epic and romance; medieval French epics preserved in Middle Welsh; the interface between medieval French and Welsh cultures as seen in medieval French and Welsh romances; Indo-European mythology.

Current Projects

• An edition and study of “Pererindod Chiarlymaen: The Medieval Welsh Version of the Pèlerinage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople.”
• A translation into English of two versions of the Song of Roland, in collaboration with Joseph J. Duggan.

Selected Publications

• La Chanson de Roland - The Song of Roland: The French Corpus, Part 4: The Paris Version. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols Publishers, 2005. Pp. 403.
• Cân Rolant: The Medieval Welsh Version of the Song of Roland. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, 113. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. x, 264. [Awarded the Vernam Hull Memorial Prize by the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies.]

• "L'itinéraire de Saint-Denis à la Terre sainte dans le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople (British Museum MS Royal 16.E.VIII)." Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 83, no. 3 (2005), 829-39.
• "Le gab d'Olivier dans la version galloise du Pèlerinage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople." In Les Chansons de Geste: Actes du XVIe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l'Étude des Épopées Romanes, ed. Carlos Alvar and Juan Paredes, 535-545. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2005.
• "Les chansons de geste du ms. B.N. fonds fr. 860: un 'cycle de Ganelon.'" To appear in the Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the Société Rencesvals - Naples 24-30 July 1997.
• "Laon, centre religieux, et la tradition rolandienne." Charlemagne in the North: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the Société Rencesvals - Edinburgh 4-11 August 1991, ed. Philip E. Bennett et al. Edinburgh: Société Rencesvals British Branch, 1993. Pp. 197-207.
• "The Effects of Oral and Written Transmission in the Exchange of Materials between Medieval Celtic and French Literatures: A Physiological View." Oral Tradition, 5/1 (1990), 131-48. [A much abridged version appeared in German as, "Die Auswirkungen mündlicher und schriftlicher Übertragung beim Materialaustausch zwischen keltischer und französischer Literatur im Mittelalter." kultuRRevolution, no. 19 (November, 1988), pp. 35-37.]
• "The French Reception of a Celtic Motif: The Pèlerinage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople." Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, 42 (1987), 344-61.
• "The `Mute Knight' and the `Knight of the Lion': Implications of the Hidden Name Motif in the Welsh Historia Peredur vab Efrawc and Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion." Studia Celtica, 20-21 (1985-86), 110-122.
• "Hu Gadarn: Folklore and Fabrication." Celtic Folklore and Christianity: Studies in Memory of William W. Heist, ed. Patrick K. Ford. Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles. Santa Barbara: McNally and Loftin, 1983. Pp. 201-12.
• "The Roland-Oliver Relationship in the Welsh Version of the Chanson de Roland." Romance Philology, 35 (1981), 234-42.
• "La Version galloise de la Chanson de Roland et sa relation avec les autres rédactions du poème" VIII Congreso de la Société Rencesvals: Pamplona--Santiago de Compostela, 15-25 de agosto de 1978. Pamplona: Institución Príncipe de Viana, 1981. Pp. 399-404.

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Kim Starr-Reid

Lecturer, Celtic Studies Program

office: 6308 Dwinelle, phone: 643-0811

email: ksr@berkeley.edu

Degrees

Ph.D., Comparative Literature
B.A., Philosophy

Teaching

Medieval and world literature in translation; epic; composition

Research Interests

Medieval romance, epic, and historiography; constructions of cultural difference in high medieval Britain and France; connections with colonialism and trauma theory

Selected Publications

• “Performing the Other in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie.” Haskins Society Journal, forthcoming.
• “The Ghosts of Britain Future: The Trauma of 1066 in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain,” doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley Department of Comparative Literature, 2006.
• Teaching Guide for Graduate Student Instructors, co-author. Berkeley: Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center, 2005.

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Eve Sweetser

email: sweetser@berkeley.edu

Interests

Breton, Middle Welsh Poetics, Celtic Linguistics

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