Helen Damico
Helen Damico is a scholar of Old English and Old English literature. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1980, and is a professor emerita at the University of New Mexico, where she began teaching in 1981 and founded the Institute for Medieval Studies. The author of Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Damico has made important contributions to the study of women in Old English and Old Norse literature, and her work on Wealhþeow is frequently cited.[1][2][3] In Wealhþeow as well as Grendel's Mother Damico sees a representation of the valkyrie from Old Norse literature.[4]
Books authored and edited
Monographs
- Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1984)
- Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England[5]
Edited collections
- Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline (3 vols)
- Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. (with John Leyerle; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993)[6]
- New Readings on Women in Old English Literature (with Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, 1990)
References
- ↑ Carruthers, Leo (2011). "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance". In Leo Carruthers. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays. Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 139–56. ISBN 9780230118805.
- ↑ Hill, John M (2009). Narrative Pulse of Beowulf: Arrivals and Departures. U of Toronto P. p. 65. ISBN 9781442691940.
- ↑ Chickering, Howell (2009). "Poetic Exuberance in the Old English Judith". Studies in Philology 106 (2): 119–36.
- ↑ Marshall, David W. (2010). "Getting Reel with Grendel's Mother: Abject Maternal and Social Critique". In Karl Fugelso. Defining Neomedievalism(s). Boydell & Brewer. pp. 135–59. ISBN 9781843842286. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ "Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England". West Virginia University Press. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ↑ Clogan, Paul Maurice (1995). "Rev. of Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period". Medievalia et Humanistica 22: 229–230. ISBN 9780847680993. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
External links
- Helen Damico at UNM
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