George S Tate Professor
Humanities Classics and Comparative Literature Humanities
Contact Information
Office: 3038 JFSB
Phone: 422-7687
E-mail: george_tate@byu.edu
Courses Taught:
Hum 201H-202H, Icel/Scand 429, 400/600-level seminars on medieval topics and on the Great War and modernism
Degrees
BA, high honors, English & German, BYU 1969; MA comparative literature, BYU 1970; PhD medieval studies, Cornell University 1974
Interests
Old Norse literature (especially Christian skaldic poetry), the confrontation of Germanic paganism and Christianity, 12th-century Renaissance (France, England, Germany), the Great War and modernism