Recent Articles

“On Beowulf and Ruodlieb: A Folkloric Context for Hrothgar’s Sermon,” Neohelicon 51 (2024): 267-79

“Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda,” Folklore 135 (2024): 110-27 

“Hrothgar and Etzel: Beowulf Analogues in Middle High German Literature,” English Studies 104 (2023): 1317-32 

“Woden and the English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered,” Folklore 133 (2022): 378-98 

“Goths, Huns, and The Dream of the Rood,” Review of English Studies 72 (2021): 821-35

“The Beowulf Poet's Sense of Decorum,” Traditio 76 (2021): 1-28

 “On Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied: Counselors, Queens, and Characterization,” Neohelicon 47 (2020): 655-72 

“Large-Scale Quantitative Profiling of the Old English Verse Tradition,” Nature Human Behaviour 3 (2019): 560-67 [with M. Krieger, M. Yakubek, P. Chaudhuri, and J. Dexter] 

“Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment,” Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31 (2019): 298-322 [with Rafael J. Pascual] 

 “Naming Children in Anglo-Saxon England: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Change,” in Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), 32-47 

“Beowulf as Pre-National Epic: Ethnocentrism in the Poem and its Criticism,” ELH 85 (2018): 847-75 

“J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: Creation from Literary Criticism,” Tolkien Studies 14 (2017): 91-113 

“The Composite Authorship of The Dream of the Rood,” Anglo-Saxon England 45 (2016): 49-68 

“The Dating of Widsið and the Study of Germanic Antiquity,” Neophilologus 97 (2013): 165-83 

“II Æthelred and the Politics of The Battle of Maldon,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111 (2012): 451-73