Rafael J. Pascual specializes in medieval English language and literature, with a focus on Old English poetry. His research project, 'Continental Sources of Anglo-Saxon Poetry', has been funded by the State Research Agency of Spain (AEI) through the Ramón y Cajal programme with a grant of €120,000 additional to salary. At Oxford, he has been Stipendiary Lecturer in English at New College, Lecturer in Old and Middle English at Magdalen College, and Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the Faculty of English and Pembroke College. He was also Postdoctoral Research Assistant at CLASP: A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (an ERC-funded project based at the Oxford English Faculty).
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Granada (2014), with a dissertation on the dating and textual criticism of Beowulf, on the strength of which he gained a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. He is the co-editor, with Leonard Neidorf and Tom Shippey, of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), and one of the contributors to The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014). His articles on Old and Middle English alliterative poetry have appeared in journals such as Medium Ævum, English Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica, Notes and Queries, and ANQ. He has also contributed to the Old and Middle English sections of The Year's Work in English Studies.
His dissertation received the 2013-2014 Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 2017, he won the 'Excellence in Knowledge' Research Award of Grupo Caja Rural (one of Spain's leading banking groups) for his contributions to medieval English scholarship.
Full list of publications: https://ugr.academia.edu/RafaelJPascual
