Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
Warren House, 2nd
Floor - 617-495-1206
Widener 216 - 617-496-6210
Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor
of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Chair, 1991-; Director of Graduate
Studies, 1991-1996. BA Michigan State University, 1959; MA Harvard University,
1966; PhD Harvard University, 1969. Assistant Professor of English, Stanford
University, 1968-70. Assistant Professor of Indo-European Studies, UCLA,
1970-71; Assistant Professor of English, UCLA, 1970-74 (Fulbright Research
Scholar, Aberystwyth, 1973-74); Associate Professor of English, UCLA,
1974-79; Professor of English and Celtic Studies, UCLA, 1979-91.
His teaching and research interests include early Irish and Welsh languages and literatures, with special focus on how those languages and texts reveal their meanings to 20th-century audiences.
[Celtic 128. Introduction to
Modern Welsh]
Catalog Number: 4148
[Celtic 129r. Intermediate
Modern Welsh]
Catalog Number: 4694
[Celtic 138r. The Mabinogi]
Catalog Number: 6480
[Celtic 150. Celtic Paganism]
Catalog Number: 6589
Celtic
182. Modern Welsh Literature
Catalog Number: 1653
Celtic
225a. Introduction to Middle Welsh
Catalog Number: 3960
Celtic
225b. Continuing Middle Welsh
Catalog Number: 4167
[Celtic 226r. Readings in Middle
Welsh]
Catalog Number: 2796
[Celtic 227. Welsh Bardic Poetry:
Seminar]
Catalog Number: 2580
[Celtic 230r. Sources for Medieval
Welsh Culture and Society]
Catalog Number: 3511
Literature
and Arts A-68. Poets and Poetry in the Celtic Literary Tradition
Catalog Number: 3957
Prof. Ford is the author of:
The Poetry of Llywarch Hen (California, 1974)
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales (California, 1977)
co-author (with Bjork, Calder, Melia) Sources and Analogues of Old British Poetry: II, Celtic and Germanic (D.S. Brewer, 1983)
editor, Celtic Folklore and Mythology (McNally and Loftin, 1983)
author, Ystoria Taliesin (Board of Celtic Studies, UWP, 1991)
co-author, translator, The Irish Literary Tradition (Cardiff, 1991)
author, The Celtic Poets: Songs and Tales for Early Ireland and Wales (Ford and Bailie, 1999)
editor, Math uab Mathonwy (Ford and Bailie, 1999)
editor, Manawydan uab Llyr (Ford & Bailie, 2000)
various articles and reviews
in scholarly journals, 1968-present
Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures