Christopher R. Fee is an American philologist and medievalist. He is a professor of

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Biography

An alumnus of Saint Edward High School, the English Departments of

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and

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, and the Medieval Studies Program of the

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, Christopher R. Fee received his Ph.D. in

English Language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...

at the

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, where he taught

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

and other topics. Fee has since served as Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at

. From 2008 to 2011, he was Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at Gettysburg College. In 2012, Fee was named one of the 300 Best Professors in America by the

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. In 2012, 2015, and 2016, Fee was a visiting faculty member in

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at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. He has written numerous works on the subjects of

Anglo-Saxon paganism Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between t ...

and

Old English literature Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th- ...

, and is known as an authority on

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s. He is also editor of the ''Encyclopedia of Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories in American History'' and the ''Encyclopedia of American Myth, Legend, and Folklore''.

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