Stephanie Hollis Explained

Stephanie Joan Hollis (born 1946)^[1] is a New Zealand scholar of English, and is emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in medieval literature.

Academic career

Hollis earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide, and then completed a PhD in English in 1977 at the Australian National University. Hollis then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to associate professor in 1995 and then full professor.^[2] Hollis was the Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies at the university, which was created in 2003 in response to an increase in interest partly attributed to The Lord of the Rings.^{[3] [4]}

Hollis retired and was appointed emeritus professor in 2009.^[5] She was a trustee of Auckland Library Heritage Trust from 2011 to 2016.^[6] Hollis served on the International Editorial Board of the journal Parergon.

Hollis has written and edited a number of books on medieval literature, including the 2007 volume Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, co-edited with Alexandra Barratt, and published by Cambridge Scholars.^{[7] [8]} This was the "only significant book-length work" to be published on New Zealand manuscripts since a catalogue of holdings by Margaret Manion, Vera Vines, and Christopher de Hamel published in 1989.^[9] Hollis has also written on Sir George Grey's collections in New Zealand and South Africa, and the founding of the priory at Minster-in-Thanet, and the poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf.

Selected works

Books

• Hollis, Stephanie, Barking Abbey and Herbals and Medical writing in Book: The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain . 2017-07-17 . Wiley . 978-1-118-39698-8 . Rouse . Robert . 1 . en . 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb213 . Echard . Sian . Fulton . Helen . Rector . Geoff . Fay . Jacqueline Ann.
• Book: Anglo-saxon Manuscripts In Microfiche Facsimile: Manuscripts of Trinity College, Cambridge . Arizona State University Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies . 2005 . 978-0866983174 . Wright . Michael . Hollis . Stephanie.
• Book: Writing the Wilton Women: Goscelin's Legend of Edith and Liber Confortatorius . Brepols . 2004 . 978-2503514369 . Hollis . Stephanie.
• Book: Old English Prose of Secular Learning . D.S.Brewer . 1993 . 978-0859913430 . Hollis . Stephanie . (Annotated Bibliographies) . Wright . Michael.
• Book: Hollis, Stephanie . Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing a Common Fate . Boydell & Brewer . 1992 . 9780851153179.

Journal articles

• Hollis . Stephanie J. . 2015 . Invidious comparisons: Manuscripts and incunabula in the libraries donated by Sir George Grey to Cape Town and Auckland . Parergon . 32 . 2 . 207–231 . 10.1353/pgn.2015.0111 . Project MUSE.
• Hollis . Stephanie . 1998 . The Old English "Ritual of the Admission of Mildrith" (London, Lambeth Palace 427, fol. 210) . The Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 97 . 3 . 311–321 . 27711680 . 0363-6941.
• Hollis . Stephanie . 1998 . The Minster-in-Thanet foundation story . Anglo-Saxon England . 27 . 41–64 . 10.1017/S0263675100004798 . 44510367 . 0263-6751.
• Hollis . Stephanie J. . 1983 . Beowulf and the Succession . Parergon . 1 . 1 . 39–54 . 10.1353/pgn.1993.0001 . 1832-8334.
• Hollis . Stephanie J. . 1981 . The Pentangle Knight: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" . The Chaucer Review . 15 . 3 . 267–281 . 25093761 . 0009-2002.

Notes and References

1. Web site: VIAF authority record . 16 Sep 2024 . Virtual International Authority File.
2. Web site: Who's Who in Humanities: Stephanie Hollis . 2024-09-16 . humanities.academickeys.com.
3. 2015 . Notes on Contributors . Parergon . 32 . 2 . 411–413 . 10.1353/pgn.2015.0148 . 1832-8334.
4. Web site: De Boni . Dita . 25 Oct 2002 . Students joust with knights – New Zealand News . 2024-09-16 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
5. Web site: Professores Emeriti – The University of Auckland . 2024-09-16 . www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz.
6. Web site: AHLT trustees Auckland Library Heritage Trust . 2024-09-16 . www.alht.org.nz.
7. Gillespie . Alexandra . 2009-01-01 . Stephanie Hollis and Alexandra Barratt, Eds.: Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand . The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History . English . 12 . 290–293.
8. 2008 . Introduction to Manuscript Studies, and: Migrations: Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand, and: Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century, and: The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand (review) . Parergon . 25 . 2 . 136–138 . 10.1353/pgn.0.0067 . 1832-8334.
9. Jones . Chris . 2015 . A Warning to the Curious: Medieval and Early Modern Collections in Aotearoa New Zealand . Parergon . 32 . 2 . 1–16 . 10.1353/pgn.2015.0084 . 1832-8334.