Wallis, Christine , Dr

Dr Christine Wallis

School of English

Teaching Associate

c.wallis@sheffield.ac.uk

Jessop West

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Dr Christine Wallis
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91ֱ��
S3 7RA

Profile: I have worked in research and teaching posts in the history of English at the universities of Newcastle, 91ֱ��, Manchester and Erlangen-Nürnberg. I gained my PhD at 91ֱ��, working on scribal behaviour in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

Research interests: My research focuses on language variation and change in historical English, examining how ideas about language variation are reflected in the writing of individuals. I use historical sociolinguistic and philological methods to analyse material texts, and explore how language learning was transmitted, and how wider notions of linguistic norms or language standards impact on individual writers’ training and output. My research projects have involved the study of scribal behaviour in Old English manuscripts, multilingual medieval manuscripts for teaching Latin, and dialect and identity in eighteenth-century personal letters.

Publications

Sen R, Beal JC, Yanez-Bouza N & Wallis C (Eds.) (2020) Studies in Late Modern English Historical Phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP). Cambridge University Press.

Pagan H, Seiler A & Wallis C (2023) Linguistic layers in John of Garland’s Dictionarius. Études Médiévales Anglaises, 102, 65-110.
Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(Sp Issue 3), 591-606.
Beal J, Sen R, YÁÑEZ-BOUZA N & Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 493-526.
Beal JC, Sen R, Yanez-Bouza N & Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 471-474.
Yanez-Bouza N, Beal J, Sen R & Wallis C (2018) . Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(1), 203-227.
Lacey E, Symons V, Thomson S & Wallis C (2016) . Year's Work in English Studies 2016, 95(1), 200-232.
Wallis C (2016) Unpublished Dry-point Annotations in a Manuscript of the Old English Bede: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B. Medium Aevum, 85(1), 15-32.
Fisher R, Symons V, Thomson S & Wallis C (2015) . The Year's Work in English Studies, 94(1), 127-152.
Wallis C (2012) ‘ “Hu mæg ure geferscipe beon gewissod butan geþeahtere?” Ælfric’s Colloquy and Latin Learning in Anglo-Saxon England’. Track Changes(3), 35-49.
Wallis C, Seiler A & Pagan H () Multilingual Glossing and Translanguaging in John of Garland’s Dictionarius: The Case of Bruges, Public Library MS 536. Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology, HS3.
Waldispühl M & Wallis C () . Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(1), 129-161.

Seiler A & Wallis C (2023) In Condorelli M & Rutkowska H (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography (pp. 338-359). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wallis C (2023) In Schiegg M & Huber J (Ed.), Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (pp. 451-472). Peter Lang
Wallis C (2018) Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice In Petre P, Cuyckens H & D'Hoedt F (Ed.), Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English (pp. 79-102). John Benjamins
Wallis C (2013) 'The Old English Bede: Scribal Strategy and Invention in MS. CCCC41' In Hejná M, Filipová H & Znojemská H (Ed.), Freond ic gemete wið: Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
Wallis C (2013) ‘Layers of Reading in the Old English Bede: The Case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B’ In Jucker A, Landert D, Seiler A & Studer-Joho N (Ed.), Meaning in the History of English Words and Texts in Context (pp. 19-39). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Wallis C (2023) . Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(2), 329-333.
Wallis C (2021) Review of Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). 2020. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam: Benjamins.. LINGUIST List, 32.
Wallis C (2021) Book review: Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Gerald P. Dyson. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. x + 286 pages, £60. ISBN: 9781783273669.. TOEBI Newsletter, 37, 102-106.
Wallis C (2017) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, vol. II). Linguist List(28.4927).
Wallis C (2017) . SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, 92(4), 1207-1208.
Wallis C (2014) Review of Donka Minkova (2014), A Historical Phonology of English. Linguist List(25.4162).
Wallis C () Book Review: Míša Hejná & George Walkden. A History of English (Textbooks in Language Sciences 9). Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 439. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6560337.. Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Sen R, Beal JC, Yanez-Bouza N & Wallis C (2016) The Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database.

Wallis C (2014) The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.

Denison D, Yanez Bouza N, Oudesluijs T, Ulph C, Wallis C, Barker H & Coulombeau S (2022) .

Teaching activities

I teach on the following modules:

I also contribute to MA teaching on topics in historical English.