Supervision
Xu Na, Leonard Neidorf, Zhu Chenyun
Wei Zixuan, Zhang Kexin
Na Xu, M.A. Student (2018–21), PhD Student (2021 – ) [NJU]
MA Thesis: “The Dream of the Rood: An Old English Poem of Composite Authorship”
PhD dissertation: “Analogues to Beowulf in Medieval Germanic Literature”
Co-authored articles:
“Óðinn as Cargo-God: A Suggestion from Beowulf.” Neophilologus (2023): 413-29.
“The Textual Criticism of The Dream of the Rood.” English Studies 101 (2020): 519-36.
E-Mail: ecgswith_xuna@smail.nju.edu.cn
Chenyun Zhu, M.A. Student (2018–21), PhD Student (2022 – ) [NJU]
MA Thesis: “From Local to Universal: Political Poetics in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf”
PhD dissertation: “The Beowulf Poet’s Knowledge of Pre-Christian Germanic Mythology”
Co-authored articles:
“Minor Germanic Deities and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name.” ANQ 37 (2024): 163-68.
“The Germanic Onomasticon and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name.” Neophilologus 106 (2022): 109-26.
E-Mail: zhuchenyun@smail.nju.edu.cn
Zixuan Wei, B.A. Student (2017–21), PhD Student (2021 – ) [NJU]
BA Thesis: “Shaping Senility with Genres: The Characterization of Aged Beowulf in the Death Speech”
PhD dissertation: "Far-travelling in Medieval English Literature"
Co-authored article:
"On Hyndluljóð Stanza 2: Óðinn’s Gift to Hermóðr and Starkaðr’s Murder of Áli,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 123 (2024): 295-310
Na Xu and Zixuan Wei. “Cædmon, Daniel, and the Dreamer in The Dream of the Rood.” ANQ 36 (2023): 457-61
E-Mail: Wei_Zixuan@smail.nju.edu.cn
Kexin Zhang, M.A. Student (2020–23) [NJU]
MA Thesis: “The Wife’s Lament: A Riddle of Legendary and Mythological Traditions”
Co-authored art:
“Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 163.” ANQ 37 (2024): 321-25.
E-Mail: zhangkexin@smail.nju.edu.cn