Email: mcgowan@SanDiego.edu
Office: FH-172B
Associate Professor, English
Research areas include: Old and Middle English, historical linguistics, Old Irish, Old Norse, Sanskrit. Most recent publication: A History of the English Language (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, March 2026). Forthcoming publications: Old English Glossed Psalters, vol. 2 (Psalms 51-100); Augustine of Ancona, Sermones dominicales, Sermones de sanctis ad clerum, Collationes pro defunctis, 2 vols.; An Introduction to Early American English; The Dialects of Old English; "Ekalavya in the Mahābhārata."
Scholarly Work
McGowan, Joseph P. Old English Glossed Psalters: Psalms 51-100. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.