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

Personal Information

Personal Web Page
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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. eds. Lars Eckstein, Andrew James Johnston, and Hans Sauer.  Tubingen, 2009.

"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:                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Food Networks:  Thinking with Food in Early Medieval England.