Jay Gates
Jay
Gates
Associate Professor
Phone number
646.557.4406
Room number
7.63.35NB

Areas of expertise

Faculty Expertise: topics/keywords

Medieval literature and languages, including Old English, Middle English, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old French, Latin, Old Saxon, and Old Irish

Community, nation, ethnicity

Hagiography

Historiography

History of the English language

Literature and law

Manuscript studies

Sex, gender, and sexuality in the Middle Ages and Antiquity

In the media

Print/Online

“When Punishment Was a New and Remarkable Thing: Medieval Anglo-Saxon Responses to Crime,” August 2014, http://www.crimcast.tv/crimcast.

“Crime and…Retributive Feud?” Boydell & Brewer Medieval Herald XIX, August 2014, (with Nicole Marafioti), http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/content/docs/Medieval_Herald_XIX_Autumn_2014_U2.pdf.

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Education
PhD  University of Wisconsin-Madison 
MA  University of Wisconsin-Madison 
BA  Oberlin College
   

 

Bio

Jay Paul Gates graduated from Oberlin College in 1999. He took his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and taught at Purdue University before coming to John Jay. His areas of specialization are Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse-Icelandic literature and language and the effects of Anglo-Scandinavian cultural contact (when Vikings meet clerics), especially as represented in legal rhetoric. Outside of his immediate research, he has an abiding affection for dead languages--including Old French and Old Saxon--allegory, and manuscript studies. He is currently working on a manuscript and several side projects concerning Cnut's kingship and Anglo-Scandinavian court.

Professional Memberships

Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/friends-of-the-saints-the-hagiography-workshop/ Medieval Club of New York http://medievalclubofnewyork.blogspot.com/

Languages
English (read, speak, write), French (read, speak, write), German (read), Latin (read), Middle English (read), Old English (read), Old French (read), Old Irish (read), Old Norse-Icelandic (read), Old Provençal (read), Old Saxon (read)
Scholarly Work

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Books

Gates, Jay Paul and Brian T. O'Camb, eds. Remembering Medieval the Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th–15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

Gates, Jay Paul and Nicole Marafioti, eds. Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. 

Articles and Chapters

Gates, Jay Paul and Brian T. O'Camb. “Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents.” Remembering Medieval the Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th–15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

Gates, Jay Paul. “Quidam proditor partis Danicae: Aelred’s Re-Imagining of the Anglo-Saxon Past.” Remembering Medieval the Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th–15th Centuries. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian T. O’Camb. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

Gates, Jay Paul. “English Legal Discourse in Quadripartitus.” Languages of the Law: Essays in Honor of Lisi Oliver. (Mediaevalia Groningana New Series) Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.

Gates, Jay Paul. “Discursive Murders: The St Brice’s Day Massacre, Beowulf, and Morðor.” Medieval and Early Modern Murder. Ed. Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018.

Editions and translations

Gates, Jay Paul. “Prologue to the Laws of King Alfred: An Edition and Translation for Students.” The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 18 (2018). http://www.heroicage.org/issues/18/gates.php.

Pedagogy

Gates, Jay Paul and Brian T. O'Camb. “Old English and Anglo-Saxon Studies in the United States.” Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Newsletter 35 (2018): 9–11. http://www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TOEBInews2018.pdf.