In Honor of John M. Hill I: The Cultural World of Beowulf

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Mary Dockray-Miller

Organizer Affiliation

Lesley Univ.

Presider Name

Samantha Zacher

Presider Affiliation

Cornell Univ.

Paper Title 1

Gothic Beowulf: The Northern Ethnography of the Nowell Codex

Presenter 1 Name

Craig R. Davis

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Smith College

Paper Title 2

Times Out of Joint: Entangled Cultures, Texts, and Objects in Beowulf

Presenter 2 Name

Carolyn B. Anderson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Wyoming

Paper Title 3

Feud in Beowulf: A Cultural Necessity

Presenter 3 Name

Howell D. Chickering

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Amherst College

Start Date

14-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 106

Description

In honor of John M Hill's retirement from the Naval Academy, these papers present new work on Beowulf especially indebted to Hill's cultural and anthropological analyses of the poem.

Mary Dockray-Miller