Education
University of Street Andrews.
University of Street Andrews.
He is a specialist in mediaeval language and literature, with interests in the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Iceland, Greenland and the North Atlantic. Publications include Germanic linguistics and dialectology, mediaeval history of the North Atlantic Region, English literature criticism, and genealogy. Additionally he has supported the academic development of English studies at the University of Basrah, Basra, Iraq.
Davis received a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Saint Andrews, and has taught at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Northumbria.
He and Karl Bernhardt are the editor of the linguistics monograph series Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics and Studies in Historical Linguistics. With Karl Bernhardt he is editor of The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics and previously editor of three refereed on-line journals on linguistics, language and literature issued between 2002 and 2006.
The journals were Journal of Language and Learning, Journal of Language and Linguistics and Journal of Language and Literature.