Biography
Sherif Abdelkarim specializes in English historical linguistics and Old English, Middle English, and classical Arabic literature. His primary book project, Hypocrisy: Private Laws, Literary Publics, 500-1500, examines conceptions and representations of hypocrisy across the premodern world.
Selected Publications
Books
Katherine Jacka, Ahmad Kzzo, Matt King, and Sherif Abdelkarim, eds. and trans. Al-Idrisi鈥檚 Norman Kingdom in the South: The Book of Roger in Translation, Arc Humanities Press, 2024
Essays and Chapters
鈥泪蝉濒补尘,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion, ed. William Stockton (Routledge, 2026), pp.170-178
鈥淧overty, Race and Ethnicity,鈥&苍产蝉辫;A Cultural History of Poverty in the Medieval Age, ed. Eliza Buhrer (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), pp.93-115
"," ROEP: Resources for Old English Prose (2025)
鈥淭he Way of the Superbious Man: Alexander to Aristotle and the Riddle of the Letter,鈥&苍产蝉辫;English Studies 105.5 (2024): pp.750-71
鈥淐haucer Unlimited, or, Reading Chaucer Elsewhere,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 31.1 (2024): pp.65-84
鈥淭he Terms of Hypocrisy in Early English Law and Literature: 脝lfric and Wulfstan,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Law, Literature, and Social Regulation in Early Medieval England, ed. Andrew Rabin and Anya Adair (Boydell Press, 2023), pp.236-258
鈥淚bn al-Kha峁玝: Character Assassin,鈥&苍产蝉辫;PMLA 137.1 (2022): pp.70-87
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Sundial (2022)
鈥淎fterword,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Strangers at the Gate!: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe, ed. SC Thomson (Brill, 2022), pp.225-231
鈥淐haucer鈥檚 Amoral Lyrics,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Mediaevistik 34 (2021): pp.143-52
鈥淭his Land is Your Land: Citizenship in England and Arabia, 500鈥1000,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Postmedieval 11.2 (2020): pp.396-406
鈥厂墨谤补丑,鈥&苍产蝉辫;New Literary History 50.3 (2019): pp.327-333