Joseph Wittig
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
Research Interests
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.