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Aaron Kleist

Professor of English

DepartmentDepartment of English
Biola AffiliationsFaculty
Phone(562) 903-4824 (Department of English)

Documents

Degrees

  • Litt.D., University of Cambridge
  • Ph.D., University of Cambridge
  • M.A., Indiana University
  • B.A., Taylor University

Member of

Biography

Raised on the island of Saipan, as well as in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Aaron J. Kleist completed his doctorate degree in Old English literature at the University of Cambridge before coming to Biola in 2001. His research on reconstructing medieval texts through digital editions brought him a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a posting as a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge in 2004. His work also led him to direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant from 2006鈥2011 and allowed him to return to Cambridge as a Life Fellow of Clare Hall. He consulted as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in 2008, at the University of Munich in 2011, and at the Belarus State University in 2018. At Biola, moreover, he has served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from director of the interdisciplinary general education IRIS program to the Associate Provost of Academic Innovation.

Affiliations

[Selected]

  • Life Member, Fulbright Association, 2012鈥損resent
  • Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2008鈥損resent
  • Research Associate, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA, 2003鈥損resent
  • Member, Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK, 2000鈥損resent
  • Honorary Invited Associate, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton University, 2002鈥損resent
  • Reader, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK, 1999鈥損resent
  • Reader, Cambridge University Library, UK, 1997鈥損resent
  • Reader, National Library of Belarus, 2018
  • Reader, Batthyaneum Library, Transylvania, Romania, 2011
  • Reader, Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2008

Awards

[Selected]

  • Sir Israel Gollancz Prize, British Academy, for 鈥渙ne of the most important contributions to Old English studies of the last generation,鈥 2024
  • Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate, 2006鈥2011, 2015鈥2020, and 2022鈥2025
  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria, 2022
  • Fulbright Specialist, Belarusian State University, 2018
  • Fulbright Specialist, University of Munich, Germany, 2011
  • Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2008
  • Fulbright Specialist, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2008
  • Honorary Research Associate; Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic; U of Cambridge, 2004 and 2008
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions Grant, 2006
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2004

Publications

Books

  • Kleist and Robert Upchurch. 脝lfrician Homilies and Varia, vol I. Anglo-Saxon Texts 13a. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022. [xxii + 485 pp.]
  • Kleist and Robert Upchurch. 脝lfrician Homilies and Varia, vol. II. Anglo-Saxon Texts 13b. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022. [vi + 518 pp.]
  • The Chronology and Canon of 脝lfric of Eynsham. Anglo-Saxon Studies 37. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019. [xxii + 347 pp.]
  • Ed. The Digital 脝lfric. Scholarly Digital Editions. Boydell & Brewer, 2016. [1,167,988 words] Received the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions鈥 Seal of Approval, 2014.
  • Striving with Grace: Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto Old English Series 20. University of Toronto Press, 2008. [xv + 418 pp.]
  • Ed. The Old English Homily: Precedence, Practice, and Appropriation. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. [xiii + 532 pp.]

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

  • 鈥淭he Sources of 脝lfric鈥檚 De creatore et creatora (AH II.14; C.B.1.6.4).鈥 Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors. Ed. Malcolm Godden and Christine Rauer. Oxford University and the University of St Andrews. (2022; rev. ed. 2023)
  • 鈥Per coronauirum ad astra: Improving Pedagogy in Covid鈥檚 Aftermath.鈥 The Child is the Father of the Man: 30 Years of English Philology at Plovdiv University. Ed. Yana Rowland and Dimitar Karamitev. Plovdiv: University of Plovdiv P, 2022. 29鈥51.
  • 鈥淐lement of Alexandria.鈥 Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture. Ed. Brandon Hawk, 2021. [book series, now digital]
  • 鈥淎 Fourth 脝lfrician Commonplace Book? Vestiges in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190.鈥 Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2019): 31鈥72.

Presentations

[Selected]

  • 鈥淭hese Things of Darkness I Do Not Acknowledge Mine: Liminality and Legitimacy in 脝lfric鈥檚 Afterlives,鈥 脝lfric鈥檚 Afterlives Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, June 2025 (upcoming)
  • 鈥淭he [Ostensible] Obsolescence of the Old,鈥 British Academy, London, UK, October 2024
  • 鈥淓ffectively Incorporating AI into Higher Education,鈥 Fulbright National Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2024
  • 鈥淓diting Shakespeare: The Quartos and First Folio.鈥 Fulbright Lecture, Huntington Library, Pasadena, January 2024
  • 鈥淪earching for Shakespeare: Textual Evidence, Extra-Textual Decisions, and Unexpected Complications in A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream.鈥 Downing College, University of Cambridge, July 2023
  • 鈥淣etworks of Sanctity in 脝lfric鈥檚 Temporale Homilies.鈥 International Medieval Congress, Leeds, U.K., July 2023
  • Fulbright Seminar Series on Pedagogy [9 seminars, 1.5 鈥 2 hours each]. Faculty of Philology, Plovdiv University, February鈥揗ay 2022
  • 鈥淕ained in Translation: Authorial Revision and the Transmission of Ideas in Early England.鈥 Translation Theory Lectures, Department of English, Plovdiv University, May 2022
  • 鈥溍唋fric鈥檚 Chronology and Canon.鈥 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, University of New Mexico, August 2019
  • The Fulbright Lectures [13 addresses, 1.5 鈥 3 hours each]. Belarusian State University, October鈥揘ovember 2018

Courses

[Selected]

  • The Battle of the Sexes in the Middle Ages
  • Castles, Kings, and Conquest
  • Digital Manuscript Restoration
  • Dystopian Literature and Film
  • Humanities Internships: Preparing for Your Profession
  • Legends of King Arthur
  • Money, Sex, and Power
  • Old English Literature and Language
  • Science Fiction: The Building of Empire
  • Shakespeare in Script, Stage, and Screen
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