RENEE TRILLING

Office: 337 English
Office Phone: 244-5655
Office Hours: M 11-12:30, T 9:30-11, and by appointment

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Courses

Spring 2008:

ENGL 396: Getting Medieval: From Beowulf to Monty Python

ENGL 508: Beowulf

Areas of Interest

Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; aesthetics; gender studies

Work in Progress

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia:  Historical Representation in Medieval English Verse, c. 850 - 1200 A.D.

Heavenly Bodies:  Paradoxes of Martyrdom in Aelfric's Lives of Saints.

Recent Publications

"Sovereignty and Social Order:   Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity," in The Bishop Reformed:   Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, ed. John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones, 58-85 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).

"Beyond Abjection:  The Problem with Grendel's Mother Again," Parergon 24.1 (2007): 1-20.

"Politics, Place and Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," Anglo-Saxon England (forthcoming).

"Ruins in the Realm of Thoughts:   Reading as Constellation in Anglo-Saxon Poetry," Modern Philology (forthcoming).