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Allen J. Frantzen

Allen J. Frantzen
Title: Professor  
E-mail: afrantz@luc.edu  


Personal Information

Personal Web Page
(see also http://www.Anglo-Saxon.net)   

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/allen.frantzen#/allen.frantzen?ref=name

Education:
B.A., Loras College (1969); M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976), University of Virginia

Teaching and Research Interests:
Old and Middle English Literature; Textual Criticism; Literary History; History of Sexuality; World War I and Modernism; Literary Theory and Criticism

Recent Publications:

"Tolerance in Old and Middle English Sources," Borders and Transitions in Language, Literature, and Culture, ed. Lars Eckstein, Andrew James Johnston, and Hans Sauer. Tübingen, 2009.

"The Englishness of Bede, from Then to Now," The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott DeGregorio, Cambridge UP, 2010.

"Window in the Wall: Looking at Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel." Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, ed. Nicholas Perkins and David Clark, 2010.

"The Abraham Story:  Wilfred Owen's 'The Parable of the Young Man and the Old.'"  What's the Word?  No. 255.  Radio program of the Modern Language Association, produced by Sally Placksin.  www.mla.org and NPR Content Depot (30 April 2008). 

"Drama and Dialogue in Old English Poetry: The Scene of Cynewulf's Juliana." Theatre Survey 48 (2007): 99-119.

"The Handsome Sailor and the Man of Sorrows: Billy Budd and the Modernism of Benjamin Britten.” Modernist Cultures 3.1 (2007).  http://www.js-modcult.bham.ac.uk/currentissue.asp

The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: An Electronic Edition. http://www.Anglo-Saxon.net (2007)

Books:
Editor, with John Hines, Cædmon's Hymn and Material Culture in the World of Bede. Medieval European Studies, West Virginia University Press, 2007.

Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.  

Creative Work:
"A Son at the Front," a play with music by John Frantzen, premiered June 2009, at the Athenaem Theatre, Chicago.  www.sonatthefront.com 

Work in Progress:
Anglo-Saxon Keywords: A Modular Approach to Early English Culture and Society.
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2012.


Teaching "Beowulf" in the Twenty-first Century, co-edited with Howell D. Chickering and R. F. Yeager, under contract to Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies for 2013.


Food Networks: Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England. Book manuscript.

“Teaching Beowulf and Teaching Gender,” forthcoming in Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-first Century, co-ed. with Chickering and Yeager.

“And—? Using Digital Tools to Reread The Canterbury Tales,” with Patrick J. McMahon, forthcoming in Essays in Medieval Studies 27 (2011).

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