Michael W Herren
Professor Emeritus
Distinguished Research Prof.
Senior Scholar
Office: Vanier 232
Email: aethicus@yorku.ca
Michael Herren taught full-time at York for 39 years and on contract for eleven years after retirement. He spent most of his career at Atkinson College, where he founded the program in Classical Studies and taught Humanities and Greek and Latin literature courses. In his last 15 years of full-time teaching he also taught and supervised doctoral students in the graduate program for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He founded the Journal of Medieval Latin and co-founded its Publications series. He published widely on topics dealing with late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and established the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project. He won numerous fellowships and award and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Medieval Academy of America, and a corresponding member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Degrees
B.A., Humanities (Philosophy Concentration), 1962, Claremont Men' (now McKenna) CollegeM.S.L., Latin and Paleography, 1967, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Ph.D., Classical Philology, 1969, University of Toronto
Research Interests
- Festschrift for 80th Birthday - 2021
- Humboldt Research Prize - 2013
- Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America - 2010
- Festschrift for 65th Birthday - 2006
- Konrad Adenauer Prize (RSC) - 2003
- Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy - 2002
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 1999
- Distinguished Research Professor, York - 1998
- Guggenheim Fellowship - 1998
- Killam Research Fellowship - 1995
- Distinguished Visiting Prof., Berkeley - 2006
2017. The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Christian Fathers. New York: Oxford University Press, 232 pp. Paperback edition, OUP 2019.
2002. With Shirley Ann Brown. Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth
to the Tenth Century. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press. Studies in Celtic History 20.
319 pp. [refereed monograph] 2002. Paperback edition Boydell Press, 2012.
Michael Herren taught full-time at York for 39 years and on contract for eleven years after retirement. He spent most of his career at Atkinson College, where he founded the program in Classical Studies and taught Humanities and Greek and Latin literature courses. In his last 15 years of full-time teaching he also taught and supervised doctoral students in the graduate program for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He founded the Journal of Medieval Latin and co-founded its Publications series. He published widely on topics dealing with late antiquity and the early Middle Ages and established the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project. He won numerous fellowships and award and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Medieval Academy of America, and a corresponding member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Degrees
B.A., Humanities (Philosophy Concentration), 1962, Claremont Men' (now McKenna) CollegeM.S.L., Latin and Paleography, 1967, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Ph.D., Classical Philology, 1969, University of Toronto
Research Interests
Awards
- Festschrift for 80th Birthday - 2021
- Humboldt Research Prize - 2013
- Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America - 2010
- Festschrift for 65th Birthday - 2006
- Konrad Adenauer Prize (RSC) - 2003
- Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy - 2002
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 1999
- Distinguished Research Professor, York - 1998
- Guggenheim Fellowship - 1998
- Killam Research Fellowship - 1995
- Distinguished Visiting Prof., Berkeley - 2006
All Publications
2017. The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Christian Fathers. New York: Oxford University Press, 232 pp. Paperback edition, OUP 2019.
2002. With Shirley Ann Brown. Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the Fifth
to the Tenth Century. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press. Studies in Celtic History 20.
319 pp. [refereed monograph] 2002. Paperback edition Boydell Press, 2012.
