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A/Prof John Ryan
Associate Professor, School of English, Communication and Theatre
Qualifications
MA (NZ and Oxf.), PhD (Camb. and UNE), FRSA.
Contact
| Email: | jryan@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG30 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2601 (or +61 2 6773 2601 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
He has lectured and been published in many countries and was Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield (Department of English Language and Linguistics) in 1995.
Affiliations
He has been a member of the Council of the Australian Universities Language Association since 1972.
Areas of Teaching
The History of the English Language, Australian Folklore and Folk Speech and any language courses for English Honours.
Research interests
John Ryan's research interests lie in the fields of language and literature of both Early English and the related cultures and Australian English and Australian literature. He has taught Old English, Old Norse, and Middle English for many years, more recently offering composite courses with these texts in translation. He has a world reputation for this studies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other neo-mediaevalist writers. Long a lexicographer associated with the Oxford English dictionary he has published extensively on Australian vocabulary and idiom. Since 1990 he has edited Australian Folklore. He writes regularly for folklore journalism North America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. He has published numerous papers on cultural matters concerning Northern New South Wales.