Notes on Contributors
Kim Bergqvist
is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been a visiting researcher at Universidad de Navarra, University of Oslo, Cornell University, Københavns University, and Columbia University. He specializes in political, cultural, and comparative history, and the history of emotions. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation entitled Ethics, Politics, and Chivalry: Aristocratic Ideology in Castile-León and Sweden, c. 1275–c. 1350.
Jim Casey
is the Appropriations in Performance editor for Borrowers & Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. Although primarily a Shakespearean, he has published on such diverse topics as fantasy, monstrosity, early modern poetry, medieval poetry, pedagogy, textual theory, performance theory, postmodern theory, adaptation theory, digital humanities, old age, comics, anime, masculinity, the supernatural, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Ovid, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica. He is a Fulbright Fellow, the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, the editor of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the co-editor of the collection Shakespeare/Not Shakespeare with Christy Desmet and Natalie Loper.
Danielle Marie Cudmore
received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2015 and is currently a lecturer in English at Halmstad University in Halmstad, Sweden. Her interests include language and literature in medieval North Sea Europe and representations of the natural world in medieval literature. She is co-editor and contributor for Imagining the Supernatural North (2016, University of Alberta Press).
Marjorie Housley
received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in gender and emotion in Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Norse heroic literature.
Erin I. Mann
is Dean of the Division of Humanities at Volunteer State Community College. She specializes in medieval literature, in particular issues of sexuality, religion, and the family.
Inna Matyushina
is an Honorary Professor at Exeter University and Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. She has published extensively on Russian literature, Old English, Old High German and Old Norse poetry and prose, as well as on issues in translating poetic and dramatic texts. Her publications include the following monographs: The Functions of Rhyme in Alliterative Verse (1986); The Magic of the Word: Skaldic Libellous Verse and Love Poetry (1994); The Earliest European Lyrics (1999, Two volumes); Skaldic Poetry (Co-authored with Elena Gurevich, 2000); The Poetics of Chivalric Sagas (2002); Words before blows: The Tradition of Flyting in Old Germanic Culture (2011); and the edited collection The Rise of Lyrical Poetry (with Sergey Neklyudov, 2007).
Drew Maxwell
is a part-time faculty member in the English Literature department at Trent University and has taught a wide variety of medieval literature courses. Drew has published and presented scholarly work on Chaucer, medieval romance, and medievalism.
Kristen Mills
is Associate Professor of Irish and Old Norse Philology in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. She specializes in the history of emotions, constructions of gender, and the cultural history of death and dying in medieval North Atlantic literatures and cultures. Recent publications include “Death, Women, and Power: Theme and Structure in Reicne Fothaid Canainne,” in Ériu 68 (2018); “The Corpse and the Conqueror: The Curious Afterlife of Ívarr inn beinlausi,” in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology 118 (2019); and “Murnan on Mode: Grief in Early Medieval England,” in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, edited by Maren Clegg-Hyer and Gale Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020).
Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
is an Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University – Altoona. He specializes in medieval and early drama and is currently working on a book, Dramatic Networks: Recovering Queer Figures in Medieval English Drama.
Lee Templeton
is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College. He specializes in issues of gender, grief, and chivalric identity, particularly in Middle English literature. His work has appeared in Medieval Perspectives, Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music, and The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist. He is the co-editor, with Amy N. Vines, of New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker.
Kisha G. Tracy
is an Associate Professor of English Studies specializing in early British and world literatures at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut in 2010. In addition to several articles, her first book was published by Palgrave in 2017 and is entitled Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature.