Dr Mark Stansbury

Lecturer in Classics
Director of the Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-modern Studies (CAMPS)
Second Year BA Co-ordinator

Office: Tower 2, Room 504
Phone: 091 495782
E-mail: mark.stansburynuigalway.ie

Mark Stansbury was born in Texas and studied for an A.B. at Harvard College and a Ph.D. at Boston College. He also studied for two years at the Seminar für Mittellateinische Philologie in Münster, Germany, thanks to a Fulbright grant, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the early manuscript culture of Ireland for the Foundations of Irish Culture Project at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway.

His research is concerned with the transmission and reception of classical culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. His work on the textual side of this question has focused on the commentary tradition, including a translation (with Christopher McDonough and Richard Prior) and introduction to the commentary on the fourth book of the Aeneid by the late-antique grammaticus Servius. More recently, he has worked on the manuscript side of this question, focusing on the ways that Insular scholars transformed Roman written culture and transmitted it back to the Continent. The first results of this work will be a catalogue of manuscripts in Irish script written before ca. 800, and a handlist of writers cited in the earliest Latin writing by Irish scholars. This will lead to a broader project focusing on the transition from Late-Roman to Early Medieval script. In addition, he is interested in ways to display critical editions electronically and in the computer classification of scripts.

Select publications

Book

Mark Stansbury, Christopher McDonough and Richard E. Prior,   Servius' Commentary on Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid: An Annotated Translation  (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004)

Articles in Journals

'The Composition of Adomnán's Vita Columbae', Peritia 17-18 (2003-4) 154-82

'Early-Medieval Biblical Commentaries, Their Writers and Readers', Frühmittelalterliche Studien 33 (1999) 49-82.

Chapters in multi-author books

'The computer and the classification of script' in Malte Rehbein, Patrick Sahle, Torsten Schaßan, eds., Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter (BoD, 2009) 237-49.

'Bede's Biblical Commentaries' in Jane Hawkes and Susan Mills, eds., Northumbria's Golden Age (Sutton Publishing, 1998) 383-89

'Columba and the Power of Writing', in proceedings of the Lives and Afterlives III Conference (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming).

Introductions and translations on the following topics for a source-book on the Virgil tradition edited by Michael Putnam and Jan Ziolkowski, forthcoming from Yale University Press: '12th-century argumenta and accessus to the Eclogues'; 'Old-Irish Glosses on Philargyrius'; 'A Carolingian Commentary on Eclogue 6'; 'Pompeian Graffiti'.

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