Research areas
John Joseph Gallagher is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of English and the Assistant Editor of Fontes Anglo-Saxonici, the most comprehensive database of sources for Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. John was involved in the 2020 revival and redevelopment of Fontes, and currently works on the database鈥檚 content and expansion. Enter Fontes Anglo-Saxonici here:
John鈥檚 research interests lie in biblical cultures of translation, interpretation, and literary adaptation in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Primarily, John鈥檚 work concerns religious literature, textual criticism, exegesis, philology, and theology within the spheres of Gothic, Latin, Old English, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Saxon, and related textual cultures.
John gained a PhD from 58吃瓜 and has taught extensively in the School of English, the School of Divinity, the School of Modern Languages in the Department of Comparative Literature, and the 58吃瓜 Institute of Medieval Studies. John maintains strong research links with St Mary鈥檚 College, the School of Divinity, particularly in relation to his ongoing work on the Gothic Bible.
He is a Scientific Associate of the Orthodox Academy of Crete; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; a Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; and an External Member of the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.
Alongside colleagues from Europe and North America, John is a co-organiser of the international conference 鈥淓ntangled Christianities: 100鈥�1500 CE,鈥� to be held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in 2025. For more details visit:
Research Interests
Biblical exegesis and textual criticism; translation and literary adaptation; source criticism; religious poetry; cosmology and eschatology; computus and the calendar; medieval hermeneutics; liturgy; homiletics; classical reception; digital humanities.
Selected publications
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Gallagher, J., 14 Jan 2026, The Palgrave encyclopedia of medieval women's writing in the global Middle Ages. Sauer, M. M., Watt, D. & Herbert McAvoy, L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 23-25
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Gallagher, J., 14 Jan 2026, The Palgrave encyclopedia of medieval women's writing in the global Middle Ages. Sauer, M. M., Watt, D. & Herbert McAvoy, L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 134-136
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Gallagher, J., 2026, (Unpublished) Martyrologies in the insular world. Volmering, N. (ed.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Gallagher, J., 14 Jan 2026, The Palgrave encyclopedia of medieval women's writing in the global Middle Ages. Sauer, M. M., Watt, D. & Herbert McAvoy, L. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 701-702
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Gallagher, J., 2025, (Submitted) Uses of the satanic . Hughes, S., Morris, K. & Dendle, P. (eds.). Boydell & Brewer, p. 33-64
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Gallagher, J. (Editor) & Everson, M. (Editor), 1 Aug 2024, Dundee: Evertype. (Corpus textuum anglicorum; vol. 1)
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book
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Open access
Gallagher, J. J., 1 Aug 2024, The Anglo-Latin poetic tradition: sources, transmission, and reception, ca. 650鈥�1100. Curran, C. M. (ed.). York: Arc Humanities Press, p. 135-176 42 p. (Medieval media and culture).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Gallagher, J. J., 27 Jun 2023, Bede the scholar. Darby, P. & MacCarron, M. (eds.). Manchester: University of Manchester Press, p. 198-222 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter
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Open access
Gallagher, J., 10 Mar 2022, In: Religions. 13, 3, 23 p., 236.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Gallagher, J., 1 Dec 2021, In: Augustinianum. 61, 2, p. 361-380 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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