Wendolyn Weber

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Wendolyn Weber

Chair and Professor of English

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Office Hours

TW 9:30-12:00

Biography

BA in English and German, University of California, Berkeley MA and Phd in Comparative Literature, Brown University

Research Interests

    Old English, Old Norse, and Middle High German language and literature, Medieval Germanic heroic culture, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Violence, Monsters and Monstrosity, Posthumanism

Teaching Interests

    Literary Theory, History of Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics, Medieval literature, History of the English Language, Old Norse language and literature, Old English language and literature, Myth and Literature, Bible as literature, European literature, Mythology, Monsters

Education

PhD in Comparative Literature

Brown University

Other in

University of Oslo

MA in Comparative Literature

Brown University

BA in English

University of California, Berkeley

BA in German

University of California, Berkeley

Other in

University of Kent

Published Works

    Weber, A. W. . "Sarah Kay, -The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry-". The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Weber, A. W. (2022). "The Case for Hildeburg: Beowulf and Ethical Subjectivity". Quidditas, 437-53. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol43/iss1/4. Weber, A. W. (2022). "Exploring the Cultural Mechanics of Social Inequality and Global Cultural Interdependence". Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Winter 202211-127. https://doi.org/doi: 10.1016/j.orbis.2021.11.009. Weber, A. W. (2020). "_Only Lovers Left Alive_: Expat Vampires and Post-Imperial Cosmopolitanism". (pp 195-208). McFarland. Pantos, J. A., Weber, A. W. (2019). Organizing the History of English course by linguistic topic. (). Modern Language Association. Weber, A. W. (2018). "Sublime Discomforts and Transformative Milksopishness: William Morris in Iceland". Journal of William Morris Studies, XXII(3), 23-37. williammorrissociety.org. Weber, A. W. (2012). "Translation Choices and Cultural Topographies: The Uses of Boethius's -Consolation of Philosophy- in the Dutch Renaissance". Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society, 215-111. . Weber, A. W. (2012). "Transmitting Fantasies: Sexist Glossing, Scholarly Desires, and Translations of the Heroic Woman in Medieval Germanic Literature". Translation Studies, 5(3), 312-326. .