Antonette diPaolo Healey

My first teaching position was as Assistant Professor, Department of English at Yale University. In 1978, I moved to the University of Toronto, joining the research team of the Dictionary of Old English (DOE), founded by Angus Cameron, and was appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies, later cross-appointed to the Department of English. I became Co-Editor of the Dictionary of Old English in 1985 and Editor in 1989. In 1991 I was appointed the inaugural holder of the Angus Cameron Professorship in Old English Studies, a position I held until my retirement from the University and from the Editorship of the Dictionary in 2014.

Articles

“The Importance of Old English ‘head’” in Mapping English Metaphor Through Time, ed. by Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell, and Carole Hough (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2016), pp. 165-84.

 “Contested Categories, Anxiety, and Resistance in Early England and Beyond: The Case of ‘Hard’” in Transitional States: Change, Tradition, and Memory in Medieval Literature and Culture, ed. Graham D. Caie and Michael D. C. Drout. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Vol. 530 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2018), pp. 12-32. 

with Robert E. Lewis, “The English Period Dictionaries”, in The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries, ed. Sarah Ogilvie (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2020), pp. 183-94. 

“The Verbal Syntax of (ge)hȳran and its Relation to Meaning”, in Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura, ed. M.J. Toswell and Taro Ishiguro, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 61 (Berlin: Peter Lang 2022), pp. 67-83.

Web Publication

with Joan Holland, David McDougall, Ian McDougall and with Roy Liuzza, Rob Getz, Valentine Pakis, and Stephen Pelle, The Dictionary of Old English: A to H online, with web interface by Xin Xiang (Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project 2016).
      This is a landmark publication in which DOE provides links to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary, the first time that the three major historical dictionaries of English are in mutual conversation. 

CD-ROM Publication

with Joan Holland, David McDougall, Ian McDougall and with Roy Liuzza, Rob Getz, Valentine Pakis, and Stephen Pelle, The Dictionary of Old English: A to H on CD-ROM, with electronic version for Windows developed by Xin Xiang (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project 2017), 98MB.