Professor of English & Comp Literature (3225)
518 Greenlaw
Campus Box 3520
919-962-4050 (phone)
jwittig@unc.edu
B.A. Wheeling College, 1963
M.A. University of Scranton, 1965
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1969
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.