Rate My Professor Greg Waite

Honorary Associate Professor Greg Waite serves in the Department of English and Linguistics within the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago. He earned his BA from the University of Otago and his MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Waite's research specializations include Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse. His scholarly work focuses on early English literature, language, and textual analysis, contributing significantly to medieval and early modern studies.

Waite's career at the University of Otago spans decades, marked by key projects and publications. In 1984, he co-initiated the Textbase of Early Tudor English with Alistair Fox, resulting in a web search engine for searchable early Tudor texts. He authored Old English Prose Translations of King Alfred's Reign: A Bibliographical Guide (2000), a comprehensive resource on Alfredian translations. Notable articles include 'The Preface to the Old English Bede: Authorship, transmission, and connection with the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List' (2015) and 'Skelton and the English Language' (2018). Waite examined the William Thomas Notebook, publishing 'William Thomas's Notebook: A Window on Seventeenth-Century Religion and Politics' in Parergon (2015). He edited World and Stage: Essays for Colin Gibson (1996) and served as Editor in Chief of Early Modern Literary Studies. Waite supervised doctoral theses such as An Edition of Marian Devotional Texts Extant in English Verse c. 1450-1550 (2011) and John Fewterer's Myrrour or Glasse of Christes Passion (2011). In 2016, he received a professorship in recognition of his contributions to English and Linguistics. Recent works include book reviews like Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Learning through Testimony (2024).