Prof. univ. dr. habil. Adrian Papahagi
Department of English Language and Literature
Fields of interest:
- Old, Middle and Early Modern English language and literature
- Manuscript Studies
- History of the Book
- William Shakespeare
Selected Publications
Books:
Shakespeare interpretat de Adrian Papahagi, Iași: Polirom, 2020 – (ongoing series; vol. 1, Sonete – Romeo și Julieta, 2020; vol. 2, Visul unei nopți de vară – Cum vă place, 2020; vol. 3. Titus Andronicus – Hamlet, 2021; vol. 4, Totu-i bine când se sfârșește bine – Măsură pentru măsură, 2021; vol. 5, Troilus și Cresida – Timon din Atena, 2022; vol. 6, Othello – Poveste de iarnă, 2022; vol. 7, Pericle – Cymbeline – Furtuna, 2023; vol. 8, Regele Ioan – Richard al II-lea, 2024).
An Old English Primer, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2nd edn 2024 (with M. Buzec and A. Crișan)
Books from Lost Libraries: The Medieval Dioceses of Cenad, Oradea, and Transylvania, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023.
A Transylvanian Puzzle: Reconstructing Medieval Culture from Manuscript Fragments, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022.
Providence and Grace: Lectures on Shakespeare’s Problem Plays and Romances, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2020.
Manuscrisele medievale occidentale din România. Census, Iași: Polirom, 2018 (with A. C. Dincă, A. Mârza).
Wyrd. Ideea destinului în literatura engleză veche, Bucharest: Eikon, 2014.
Jeunesse et vieillesse: Images médiévales de l’âge en littérature anglaise, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005 (ed. with Leo Carruthers).
Articles:
‘The Singularity of the Old English Boethius’, in The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850-950, ed. Amy Faulkner, Francis Leneghan, Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, pp. 283-306.
Entries ‘Alcebiades’, ‘Artemisia’, ‘Boloigne’, ‘Campayne’, ‘Cedasus’, ‘Demociones daughter’, ‘Teuta’ in The Chaucer Encyclopaedia, ed. Richard Newhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, Katie Walter, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023, pp. 37-38, 124-125, 234-235, 273-274, 315-316, 542-543, 1814.
‘A Medieval Flemish Book of Hours in Early Modern Transylvania (MS 684, Lucian Blaga Central University Library, Cluj)’, in Prayer Books and Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe/ Gebetbücher und Frömmigkeit in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. Maria Crăciun, Volker Leppin, Katalin Luffy, Ulrich A. Wien, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023, 81-96.
‘Words with Masks: An Essay on the Nomenclature of Some Late Medieval Initials’, in Les Mots au Moyen Âge/Words in the Middle Ages, ed. Victoria Turner, Vincent Debiais (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 46), Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 5-20.
‘Reformation and Transformation: Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts in Early Modern Transylvania’, in The Image of Piety in Medieval Manuscripts in Slovakia and in Europe, ed. Eva Veselovská, Bratislava: Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2021, pp. 67-82.
‘In the Margins of the Predestination Controversy: The Manuscript Context of the Hincmar Mock Epitaph’, Catholic Historical Review 105 (2019), 52-74.
‘The Library of Petrus Gotfart de Corona, Rector of the University of Vienna in 1473’, The Library 20.1 (2019), 29-46.
‘The Lorsch Gospels in the Context of the Ada Group’, in Die Handschriften der Hofschule Kaiser Karls des Großen. Individuelle Gestalt und europäisches Kulturerbe. Ergebnisse der Trierer Tagung vom 10.–12. Oktober 2018, ed. Michael Embach, Claudine Moulin, Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck, Trier: Verlag für Geschichte und Kultur, 2019, 129-155.
Research Projects:
2025-2028 – Team leader, UEFISCDI PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0465, „Cartea medievală în modernitatea timpurie: cazul Clujului în secolele al XVI-lea și al XVII-lea” – ‘Medieval Books in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Cluj in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, € 230,000.
2020-2022 – Principal investigator, RO-CULTURA-A1-3/2020/31.01.2020, „FRAGMED-Un puzzle transilvan: reconstituind cultura medievală din fragmente de codici” – ‘FRAGMED-A Transylvanian Puzzle: Reconstructing Medieval Culture from Manuscript Fragments’, € 129,000.
2019-2022 – Partner, Co-PI, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 182173, ‘Fragmentarium Phase II’, CHF 1,331,905.
2015-2017 – Team leader, UEFISCDI PNII-RU-TE-2014-4-1795, „Producția și utilizarea cărții în Transilvania înainte de Reformă: manuscrise, incunabule, inventare medievale și surse indirecte” – ‘Pre-Reformation Book Production and Use in Transylvania: Surviving Manuscripts, Incunabula, Book Lists, and Indirect Sources’, € 123,000.
2010-2013 – Team leader, UEFISCDI PNII-RU-TE-2010-290, „Vocabular codicologic și census al manuscriselor medievale în grafie latină din România” – ‘Codicological Vocabulary and Census of Western Medieval Manuscripts in Romania’, € 170,000.
2007-2008 – HESP/NEC-Link grant to establish a course on Manuscript Studies at ‘Babeș-Bolyai’ University, $ 11,000.
Teaching
The History of English Literature, from Caedmon to Shakespeare (LLE 1161/1261)
Shakespeare (LLE 2161)
Latin Palaeography, Codicology (LLE 5122/5222)
The History of the English Language (LLE 6221)
Medieval Irish Culture (LME 1118)
Codicology (Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales-FIDEM)