Philip A. Shaw received his
B.A. in English Language and Literature at the
University of Oxford, and his
Ph.D. in the
Institute for Medieval Studies at the
University of Leeds.[2][3] Following postdoctoral work and a position as lecturer in Old and Middle English at the
University of Sheffield,[4] Shaw joined the School of English at the
University of Leicester in 2009, where by 2021 he was Associate Professor in English Language and Old English. Shaw is a Fellow of the
Higher Education Academy. During Shaw's time at Leicester, in the academic year 2020–21, the University closed its teaching of English Language and of medieval English literature, putting relevant staff at risk of redundancy.[5][6]: 138 In autumn 2021, Shaw took up a lectureship in Medieval Literary Studies at Durham University.[1]
Select bibliography
(Edited with Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Catherine Hanley and Mario Longtin) Partonopeus de Blois: An Electronic Edition, 2006
(Edited with Richard Corradini, Christina Pössel and Rob Meens) Texts and identities in the early Middle Ages, 2006
(With Charles Barber and Joan C. Beal) The English Language: A Historical Introduction, 2009
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons, 2011
Names and Naming in 'Beowulf': Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020),
ISBN9781350145764
^Charles Barber, Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, The English Language: A Historical Introduction, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. v.