department of english
professor of english
damian Fleming
Meet Damian Fleming
Professor of English
Damian Fleming is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Minor in Medieval Studies (MARS) in the College of Liberal Arts. In addition to teaching ancient and medieval literature and History of the English Language, Fleming created and teaches a two-year language program in Latin. He is the winner of multiple teaching awards and designed and runs Medieval Studies Movie Night every month. His long-term research project explores knowledge of the Hebrew language and alphabet among Christians in early medieval England. He has published numerous articles on this subject. In 2024-25, he led one of the first COLA CO-LABS in which he involved his students directly in his studies of medieval manuscripts.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
M.A. Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
M.A. Medieval Studies, Fordham University
Diploma in Latin, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
B.A. Medieval Studies, Fordham University
COURSES TAUGHT AT PURDUE FORT WAYNE
CLCS10000 Elementary Latin I
CLCS15000 Elementary Latin II
CLCS20000 Second-Year Latin I
CLCS20500 Classical Mythology
CLCS25000 Second Year Latin II
ENGL 10101 - Ancient And Medieval World Literature
ENGL40102 History of the English Language
ENGL40401 Old English Language & Literature
ENGL40502 Chaucer
ENGL40601 Middle English Literature
ENGL49501 Norse Mythology
ENGL49501 Readings in Ancient Literature
ENGL50001 History of the English Language
ENGL50102 Old English
ENGL51201 Chaucer
ENGL51302 Middle English Literature
LING69001 Adv Readings in Linguistics: Teaching Latin
LINGL485 Ancient & Medieval Grammatical Texts
Publications include:
Damian Fleming, “Feter! Filate! Violent Etymologies and Insular Hebraism,” accepted for publication in The Journal of Medieval Latin (forthcoming).
Damian Fleming, “Bede and the Hebrew Alphabets,” in Bede the Scholar, ed. Peter Darby and Máirín MacCarron (Manchester, Manchester UP, 2023), 175-197.
Damian Fleming, “‘Revising Hell’: The Voices of Teachers in Anglo-Saxon Studies and Anglo-Saxon England,” in Old English Lexicology And Lexicography: Essays in Essays in Honor of Antonette DiPaolo Healey ed. Edited by Maren Clegg Hyer, Haruko Momma, and Samantha Zacher (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2020), 199-215.
Damian Fleming, “Christian Hebrew in England with and without Jewish Books,” Early Middle English 1.1 (2019): 73-82.
Damian Fleming and Thomas D. Hill, “Talking Cloaks and Hidden Wisdom: A Sapiential Figure in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature,” in Proverbia Septentrionalia: Essays on Proverbs in Medieval Scandinavian and English Literature, ed. Michael Cichon and Yin Liu (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019), 83-90.
Damian Fleming, “Sundorhalgan, Winchester, and Ælfric,” The Review of English Studies 66 (2015): 822-42.
Damian Fleming, “Hebrew Words and English Identity in Educational texts of Ælfric and Byrhtferth,” in Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Rebecca Stephenson and Emily Thornbury (Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2016), 138-157.
Damian Fleming, “Hebraeam scire linguam: Bede’s Rhetoric of the Hebrew Truth,” in Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. Samantha Zacher (Toronto: Toronto University Press; 2016), 63-78.
Damian Fleming, “Jesus, that is hælend: Hebrew Names and the Vernacular Savior in Anglo-Saxon England,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 112 (2013): 26–47.
Damian Fleming, “Rex regum et cyninga cyning: ‘Speaking Hebrew’ in Cynewulf’s Elene” in Old English Literature and the Old Testament, ed. Michael Fox and Manish Sharma (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012), 229–252.
