Russell Poole is a prominent and highly prolific scholar in the field of medieval studies. His principal scholarly interests span Old English, Old Icelandic, Medieval Latin, and Old Irish language and literature; Anglo-Saxon and medieval Scandinavian history; and the evolution of medieval scholarship.

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POOLE, Russell –Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Russell Poole is a prominent and highly prolific scholar in the field of medieval studies. His principal scholarly interests span Old English, Old Icelandic, Medieval Latin, and Old Irish language and literature; Anglo-Saxon and medieval Scandinavian history; and the evolution of medieval scholarship. His publications have achieved international recognition and acclaim for their innovative applications of textual criticism, literary and linguistic theory, cultural studies, and historiographic source criticism to an array of very difficult primary sources, in particular skaldic poetry and the Icelandic sagas. He has also published on the sociology of fiction, history of women's education, and professional writing.