Beowulf Camp in Kalamazoo: Specific Results from the 2016 NEH Institute "Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature"
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Stephanie Opfer
Organizer Affiliation
Tiffin Univ.
Presider Name
Stephanie Opfer
Paper Title 1
Teaching through Monsters: Medieval Monstrosity and the Modern Imaginary
Presenter 1 Name
Richard Fahey
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Paper Title 2
Troubled Waters: The Emblematic Landscape and Reactive Space of Beowulf 1408-1424a and 1492-1502a
Presenter 2 Name
David Pecan
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Nassau Community College
Paper Title 3
From Beowulf to Iceland to Iowa to Detroit: Bringing Context across Time, Geography, Audience, and Legal System
Presenter 3 Name
Mae T. Kilker
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Start Date
11-5-2018 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1140
Description
In the summer of 2016, twenty-two scholars met at Western Michigan University for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute called “Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature,” lead by Jana Schulman. For four weeks, we met and studied with various outstanding scholars including Rob Fulk, Heather O’Donoghue, Kevin Wanner, Dawn Hadley, and Gisli Sigurðsson. Some of the topics discussed were the Old Norse analogues of Beowulf, archaeology related to Beowulf, issues in translating Beowulf and the Old Norse sagas, and topics related to the Old Norse sagas themselves. The goal of the institute was to bring teachers of different backgrounds together to share and discuss the poem and sagas as well as share pedagogical techniques that would enrich our classrooms.
We will be presenting a session of papers that include work from scholars who have been influenced by the seminar. We wish to promote how the NEH seminar changed the way we teach Beowulf and Icelandic literature in general as well as how the seminar changed our thinking about individual research projects.
Stephanie Opfer
Beowulf Camp in Kalamazoo: Specific Results from the 2016 NEH Institute "Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature"
Schneider 1140
In the summer of 2016, twenty-two scholars met at Western Michigan University for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute called “Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature,” lead by Jana Schulman. For four weeks, we met and studied with various outstanding scholars including Rob Fulk, Heather O’Donoghue, Kevin Wanner, Dawn Hadley, and Gisli Sigurðsson. Some of the topics discussed were the Old Norse analogues of Beowulf, archaeology related to Beowulf, issues in translating Beowulf and the Old Norse sagas, and topics related to the Old Norse sagas themselves. The goal of the institute was to bring teachers of different backgrounds together to share and discuss the poem and sagas as well as share pedagogical techniques that would enrich our classrooms.
We will be presenting a session of papers that include work from scholars who have been influenced by the seminar. We wish to promote how the NEH seminar changed the way we teach Beowulf and Icelandic literature in general as well as how the seminar changed our thinking about individual research projects.
Stephanie Opfer