Cable, Thomas M.
Professor

Education: Ph.D. UT Austin 1969
Office Location: CAL 310
Office Hours: TTh 9:30-11:00a
Phone: (512) 471-8390
tcable@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: History of the English Language, Rhythms and Rhetoric of English Poetry

Recent Publications: A History of the English Language, with Albert C. Baugh, 5th ed., 2002

A Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language, 3rd ed., 2002

The English Alliterative Tradition, 1991

The Meter and Melody of Beowulf, 1974

The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry. Eds. Rebecca A. Baltzer, Thomas Cable, and James Wimsatt, with accompanying cassette tape by the musical ensemble Sequentia, 1991

''The Prosody of the New Formalism.'' In New Formalist Poets. Ed. J.N. Barron and B. Meyer. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 282. Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 333-37

''Kaluza's Law and the Progress of Old English Metrics.'' In Development in Prosodic Systems. Ed. P. Fikkert and H. Jacobs. Studies in Generative Grammar 58. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, pp. 145-58.

''Fifteenth-Century Rhythmical Changes.'' In And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche'': Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Masuji Tajima on his Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Y. Iyeiri and M. Connolly. Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002, pp. 109-25.

''Issues for a New History on English Prosody.'' In Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective. Ed. D. Minkova and R. Stockwell. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002, pp. 125-51.

Awards and Honors: University Co-operative Society Career Research Excellence Award, 1998

Texas Exes Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts, 1990

Fulbright-Hays Travel Award (France, 1979-1980, 1992-1993)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1976-1977