Robert E. Bjork 

Professor of English 

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Lattie F. Coor Hall 4438

Phone: (480) 965-5900

FAX (480) 965-1681

E-mail: Robert.Bjork@asu.edu. 

I was born in Virginia, Minnesota, and attended Pomona College (Claremont, California), Stockholm University, and UCLA, where I received my Ph.D. in 1979. My teaching interests, both in the classroom at all levels and as mentor to M.A. and Ph.D. students, range over the whole of medieval English language and literature, but my research has centered squarely in the Anglo-Saxon period. I am currently co-editing with colleagues from Wisconsin and Indiana the 4th edition of Fr. Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (the most important edition of the Old English epic ever published), and I'm General Editor of the forthcoming 4-volume Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Besides being Professor of English, I am the Director of ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), which houses a number of programs that will be of interest to you. You can read about them at http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs.

Engaged though I am in medieval and Renaissance studies, I also have two subsidiary research interests: Scandinavian Studies and medical writing. From 1984 to 1994, I was General Editor of Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation for the University of Nebraska Press, and from 1993 to 2001, I was Co-General Editor (with George C. Schoolfield of Yale University) of Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture for Camden House / Boydell & Brewer. I've translated a number of short stories and novels from Swedish myself, winning one translation prize in 1987 and honorable mention for another in 1989. Since 1981, I've published on medical writing as well and every year have taught a course on writing for biomedical journals for the UCLA School of Medicine. That course is the longest running medical writing course in the country. When time allows me, I transmute it into appropriate, digestible form and offer it to graduate students in English at ASU.