Phillip Pulsiano is late Professor of English at Villanova University. He authored numerous articles on Old and Middle English poetry and prose, and co-edited the "Garland Encyclopaedia of Medieval Scandinavia" (with Paul Acker and Kirsten Wolf). He had completed the first volume of" The Old English Psalters "(for Toronto University Press), and had undertaken significant research on Latin female saints' lives from the medieval period, and (with Joseph P. McGowan) the prose texts in the "Beowulf"-manuscript: work that will be published posthumously.