Christopher Richard Fee

Fee attended a small liberal arts college in Ohio; his undergraduate experience was not unlike that of his current students, and Gettysburg at times seems eerily familiar. Fee received a Master's in English at Loyola University in Chicago, where he spent a lot of time reading at the Newberry Library, drinking coffee with hipsters in Rogers Park, and riding the El at all hours of the night. From there Fee moved on to the University of Connecticut, where he received a Master's in Medieval Studies and admired the foliage. Fee then went to the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, where he received his Doctorate in English Language. He also ate a lot of haggis (he did!), drank very little single malt scotch, and hiked and climbed extensively in the Highlands. Fee is a specialist in Old English language and literature, with additional teaching and research interests in the following areas: the History of English; Middle English; Medieval Drama; Old Norse (that's the Viking stuff!); British, Medieval and Indo-European Mythology; theories of torture, pain, and the body as text; and technology and pedagogy. Fee also teaches a First Year Seminar on the Literature of Homelessness that includes a substantial service-learning component in Washington, DC. In addition, Fee is an active participant in the Outdoors Education Programs offered by Gettysburg's Office of Experiential Education, and co-leads educational adventure treks through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland with John Regentin, Director of Experiential Education. Fee has published numerous articles, has given conference presentations on many different topics, and has one book out, one under contract and in process, and one under revision. Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain, written with David Leeming, was published by Oxford in 2001; the paperback was issued in March 2004. Mythology in the Middle Ages, a volume in the Praeger series on the Middle Ages edited by Jane Chance, will be in print in the course of 2010. Torture and Text in Anglo-Saxon England: Pain and the Body in Old English Religious Verse, currently under revision, is Fee's third book project. Fee embraces technology in both its pedagogical and its scholarly guises: The Secret of Otter's Ransom will help users to visit and to learn about some of the most spectacular archaeological and cultural sites of the British Isles and Iceland; meanwhile, Fee is also at work on a collaborative multimedia project concerning the Anglo-Saxon Visionary Cross.