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George S. Tate, Ph.D.Professor
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1974 Joined BYU faculty
1974 PhD Cornell University
1970 MA Brigham Young University
1969 BA Brigham Young University
Primary interest in medieval literature and iconography (twelfth-century renaissance, Old Norse, Augustine), secondary work on some Mormon topics and recently on the First World War and its relationship to modernism.
Regularly teach the civ. sequence Humanities 201H-202H; occasionally (when administrative time permits) upper-division and graduate seminars in humanities and comparative literature, mostly on medieval topics (twelfth-century renaissance, medieval historiography and historical fiction, confrontations of paganism and Christianity in medieval Germanic cultures) but also, recently in London, on the Great War and British modernism. Have supervised honors or MA theses in humanities, comparative literature, classics, English, and German.
Fulbright fellow to Iceland (1971-72)
Marshall fellow to Denmark (1973)
P. A. Christensen Lectureship, College of Humanities (1985-86)
Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship (1993-96)
Alcuin Fellowship, General Education and Honors (1998-2001)
Honors Professor of the Year (1999-2000)