Robert D. Fulk

Robert Dennis Fulk was born in Chicago on October 2, 1951.[1] He received a BA in English from Oakland University in 1973, a MA in English from the University of Chicago in 1974, an MFA in Fiction from the University of Iowa in 1976, and a PhD in English from the University of Iowa in 1982.[2] From 1982 to 1983, Fulk was Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College. At Indiana University Bloomington, Fulk served as Assistant Professor of English from 1983-1987, and as Associate Professor of English from 1987 to 1992. From 1987 to 1988, Fulk was Visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of Copenhagen. He became a tenured professor at Indiana University Bloomington in 1990. At Indiana University Bloomington, Fulk has been Professor of English since 1992, and Adjunct Professor of Germanic Studies since 2005.[1]

Fulk specializes in Germanic studies, Celtic studies and Indo-European studies, with a particular focus on language and literature. He is a known expert on Old English and Old Icelandic literature. Particular areas of research are Old and Middle English dialectology, phonological and morphological change, textual criticism, and early Germanic metrics.[2]

A festschrift in honor of Fulk was edited by Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey. It was published in 2016 as Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer).[3]

• Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology, 1991 (contributions by Jane Chance, Stanley B. Greenfield, Francis P. Magoun, Tom Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien and others)
• A History of Old English Meter, 1992
• A History of Old English Literature, 2008
• Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 2008
• The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg, 2010
• A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2: Morphology, 2012
• An Introduction to Middle English: Grammar, Texts, 2012
• The Old English Canons of Theodore, 2012
• An Introductory Grammar of Old English, with an Anthology of Readings, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 463/MRTS Texts for Teaching, 8 (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014)
• Studies in the History of the English Language VI: Evidence and Method in Histories of English, 2015
• The Old English Pastoral Care, 2021

• Geoffrey Russom

• R. D. Fulk at the website of Indiana University Bloomington
• Website of R. D. Fulk