Paul Russell

Paul Russell is the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures in Residence in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard. His research interests include the linguistics and philology of the Celtic languages; and medieval Welsh and Irish literature, with a particular focus on their manuscript contexts. Another aspect of his research concerns Latin texts from the Celtic-speaking world, such as the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales, and texts translated from Latin into the vernacular Celtic languages; and out of this has developed a line of research in fields where the texts move between Latin and Celtic languages, such as medieval Welsh law and hagiography. His research ranges from the late antique through to the early modern, from Romano-British curse tablets to John Dee and Edward Lhwyd and much in between.