Interests and Information
Old and Middle English language and literatureWestern European literary and intellectual culture
Computer applications in the humanities (Hire Date: 1969)
Ph. D., Cornell University, 1969
M.A., University of Scranton, 1965
B.A., Wheeling College, 1963
jwittig@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4050
Joseph Wittig
Wittig has published on Old French, Medieval Latin, Old English, and Middle English literature. He is a contributor to Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture and a member of the editorial board of the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts. His most recent publications include an interpretative study of William Langland's Piers Plowman and a fully lemmatized analysis of the language in the three versions of that work as presented in the Athlone editions.