William Hodapp is Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Iowa, an M.A. in English from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a B.A. in Humanities from Saint Mary's University. He worked at the College since 1994, teaching a range of writing, literature, linguistics, and honors courses. He also taught in the College's Irish Studies Program in Louisburgh, Ireland, four times (2000, 2006, 2011, 2018). In 2001 the Student Senate awarded him the Tassie McNamara Award for service to students; in 2001-2002 he was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge; and in 2012 he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, participating in a seminar on the early printed book held in Antwerp, London, and Oxford. From January through May, 2015, he was a US Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, working at Durham University, Durham, England. He received the CSS Excellence Award in Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2015. In 2023, he received the College's Max H. Levine Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Bill's research and writing center on medieval and early modern languages, literature, and culture and on cinematic medievalism. Since 1990, he has presented more than ninety papers and lectures at academic conferences and universities in the United States and in Europe and has published thirty-one journal articles and book chapters and twenty reviews and review articles. In his book The Figure of Minerva in Medieval Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), he examines appearances of the Roman goddess of wisdom in ancient and medieval literary texts. Currently, he is working on two projects: the first dealing with James I of Scotland's narrative poem The Kingis Quair; the second, with connections between liturgy and medieval drama. He serves as referee for several academic journals and has guest-edited issues for three: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, and Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture.
