Important conversations on what we do as literary critics continue below, but as today’s Halloween, we ought to take some time to scare ourselves. Here…
Arthurian scholars may already know the contents of this fragmentary translation of an Italian work: Uther’s trickery of Igraine (here called Izerna), Lancelot’s lust for…
FB Tony Perkins introduced me recently to the following poem: I wished for death often but now that I am at its door I have…
I’m in the midst of an editing marathon right now, but to let you know I’m still alive, I’ll share this. In “Les Cynocéphales: Étude…
To mark the occasion of being on the verge of sending my book manuscript into the great unknown, and as a kind of prayer for…
Briefly: By now we all know about the Staffordshire Hoard, and we’ve all, or nearly all, looked at the flickr set. We’ve all made our…
A useful compendium of stories on animals and saints, focusing primarily on the desert fathers, Gregory’s Dialogs, Irish and Welsh hagiography, the legends of Cuthbert…
Today was the first day of class for my Undergrad Comp Lit course (where I’m doing Marie Lais, a Life of Cuthbert, Voyage of Brendan,…
“Today it is particularly senseless that the meaning of war and its horror–as well, obviously, as its terror–should still be entrusted to the perspective of…
In this several months-long absence, I’ve been plugging away at my book manuscript in hopes of an October submission. I’m ahead of schedule, but getting…
