Graeme Davis's Blog

Biography

Graeme Davis has both his MA and PhD from University of St Andrews. After a brief foray into accountancy, Graeme lectured at University of Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan University and Northumbria University. He is presently a lecturer at Open University and Professorial Research Fellow at University of Buckingham, as well as series editor for academic publishers Peter Lang (Oxford) with monograph series in Contemporary Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Stylistics, Archaeology and Education.

Graeme’s research interests include the syntax of Old English, Old Icelandic and Old High German, alongside Mediaeval Literature and History. He has interests in Lexicography and in English Dialectology, in Academic English and Teaching Methodology, and in some topics in Children’s Literature and Modern Literature.

In addition Graeme contributes to research in Archaeology, particularly around the Mesolithic site of Blick Mead in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. His particular interests are in British Isles Prehistory and in Anglo-Saxon and Viking sites. 

Graeme has supervised PhDs in Linguistics, Archaeology and Education, as well as supported around three dozen young academics in the publication of their first monograph, often a development of a PhD thesis. He is a journal editor, including for Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics. He has served as external examiner for three universities and external validator for more than a dozen, and has an interest in Quality Assurance. 

Graeme is keen to popularise academic endeavour, including by outreach to local communities and media coverage of research. He is a lecturer on board Fred Olsen cruises on topics as Vikings, Anglo-Saxon Literature and Stonehenge. He has published literary criticism on the work of popular writers including J K Rowling and Dan Brown.

My academic publishing to December 2022 through international academic publisher Peter Lang. Linguistics, Archaeology and Education

Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics - 54 volumes

(Including the sub-series Literary and Cultural Stylistics

Studies in Historical Linguistics - 9 volumes

Studies in the British Mesolithic and Neolithic - 3 volumes

Studies in European Archaeology - 1 volume

Digital Learning and the Future- 1 volume

PLUS an inherited series English Corpus Linguistics - 20 volumes

The Sunday Telegraph 7th February 2021 has published an article on my literary criticism of Billy Bunter: Academic says the fictional character would be a more relatable hero for youngsters because of his imperfections. My original articles are in Literary Encyclopedia, on Billy Bunter and on author Charles Hamilton. 

My articles published by Literary Encyclopedia on Billy Bunter and author Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards). 

 

Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics has published volume XIII for 2020. 

 My article on Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, published in Literary Encyclopedia. 

 
My article "Bede's Death Song" published in The Literary Encyclopedia. I make the point that the song is not in fact by Bede but is somewhat earlier than his death in AD735.

For University of Surrey and University of East London.

Hugh Lofting (literary biography)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Five on a Treasure Island

Joined the editorial board for Studies in Linguistics and Literature.