Allen J. Frantzen

Department of English
Fall 2009 schedule
English 390 T/Th 10-11.15
Englishh 322 T/Th 1-2.15
Office:
T 11.30-12.45, 2.30-3.30
Th 11.30-12.45
Phone: 773.508.2683
Fax:     773.508.8696

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Professor &
Faculty Scholar

Recent work:
· A Son at the Front, a play with music by John Frantzen, directed by Matthew Ozawa, performed June 5-7, 2009, at the Athenaeum Theater, Chicago.
· "The Englishness of Bede, from Then to Now," forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott deGregorio (Cambridge, 2010).
· "Cædmon's "Hymn" and Material Culture in the World of Bede, an essay collection co-edited with John hines, appeared in December 2007.
· "The Handsome Sailor and the Man of Sorrows: Billy Budd and the Modernism of Benjamin Britten" appeared in Modernist Cultures 3.2 (2007): 57-70.
· "Drama and Dialogue in Old English Poetry: The Scene of Cynewulf's Juliana," Theater Survey 48 (2007): 99-119.

At Anglo-Saxon.net you can see a trial database connecting archaeological and textual evidence concerning food and food production in Anglo-Saxon England.

"Circles of Grief," a song cycle based on letters from World War I, with music by Pierre Thilloy. The premiere was given in France on November 11, 2005.

Bloody Good, a study of chivalry, sacrifice, and heroic masculinity that links the Middle Ages to World War I (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004).

Write to

Allen J. Frantzen
Department of English
Loyola University
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Email
afrantz@luc.edu.
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