Dr Christine Wallis

School of English

Teaching Associate

c.wallis@sheffield.ac.uk

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

I have worked in research and teaching posts in the history of English at the universities of Newcastle, 91直播, Manchester and Erlangen-N眉rnberg. I gained my PhD at 91直播, 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鈥 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

Edited books

  • 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. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Pagan H, Seiler A & Wallis C (2023) Linguistic layers in John of Garland鈥檚 Dictionarius. 脡tudes M茅di茅vales Anglaises, 102, 65-110. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(Sp Issue 3), 591-606. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Beal J, Sen R, Y脕脩EZ-BOUZA N & Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 493-526. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Beal JC, Sen R, Yanez-Bouza N & Wallis C (2020) . English Language and Linguistics, 24(3), 471-474. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yanez-Bouza N, Beal J, Sen R & Wallis C (2018) . Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 33(1), 203-227. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lacey E, Symons V, Thomson S & Wallis C (2016) . Year's Work in English Studies 2016, 95(1), 200-232. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2016) Unpublished Dry-point Annotations in a Manuscript of the Old English Bede: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B.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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fisher R, Symons V, Thomson S & Wallis C (2015) . The Year's Work in English Studies, 94(1), 127-152. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2012) 鈥 鈥淗u m忙g ure geferscipe beon gewissod butan ge镁eahtere?鈥 脝lfric鈥檚 Colloquy and Latin Learning in Anglo-Saxon England鈥. Track Changes(3), 35-49. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C, Seiler A & Pagan H () Multilingual Glossing and Translanguaging in John of Garland鈥檚 Dictionarius: The Case of Bruges, Public Library MS 536. Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology, HS3. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Waldisp眉hl M & Wallis C () . Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(1), 129-161. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Seiler A & Wallis C (2023) In Condorelli M & Rutkowska H (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography (pp. 338-359). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2023) In Schiegg M & Huber J (Ed.), Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics (pp. 451-472). Peter Lang RIS download Bibtex download
  • 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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2013) 'The Old English Bede: Scribal Strategy and Invention in MS. CCCC41' In Hejn谩 M, Filipov谩 H & Znojemsk谩 H (Ed.), Freond ic gemete wi冒: Perspectives on Medieval Britain; Language, Literature, Society Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2013) 鈥楲ayers of Reading in the Old English Bede: The Case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B鈥 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. RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Wallis C (2023) . Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 9(2), 329-333. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2021) Review of Merja Kyt枚 and Erik Smitterberg (eds.). 2020. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters. Amsterdam: Benjamins.. LINGUIST List, 32. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2021) Book review: Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Gerald P. Dyson. Boydell and Brewer, 2019. x + 286 pages, 拢60. ISBN: 9781783273669.. TOEBI Newsletter, 37, 102-106. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2017) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English, vol. II). Linguist List(28.4927). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2017) . SPECULUM-A JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES, 92(4), 1207-1208. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C (2014) Review of Donka Minkova (2014), A Historical Phonology of English. Linguist List(25.4162). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wallis C () Book Review: M铆拧a Hejn谩 & 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. RIS download Bibtex download

Website content

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

Theses / Dissertations

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

Datasets

  • Denison D, Yanez Bouza N, Oudesluijs T, Ulph C, Wallis C, Barker H & Coulombeau S (2022) . RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities

I teach on the following modules:

  • EGH 108 Early Englishes
  • EGH 214 Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English
  • EGH 104 Varieties of English
  • EGH 107 History of English

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