John Gallagher

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’s content and expansion. Enter Fontes Anglo-Saxonici here: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/fontes/texts

John’s research interests lie in biblical cultures of translation, interpretation, and literary adaptation in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Primarily, John’s 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 St Andrews 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 St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies. John maintains strong research links with St Mary’s 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 “Entangled Christianities: 100–1500 CE,” to be held at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in 2025. For more details visit: https://sites.google.com/view/entangled-christianities/about-call-for-papers?authuser=0

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.