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Alexandra H. Olsen, Professor

Department Home Page Faculty & Staff Page Personal Home Page Email: aolsen@du.edu	Education B.A., University of California at Berkeley M.A., University of California at Berkeley Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Areas Old English and Middle English Literature; Emphases: Beowulf and Chaucer, non-Chaucerian Middle English Literature, Grammar, History and Structure of English Major Publications Poems and Prose from the Old English, co-authored with Burton Raffel, Yale UP, 1998. New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, co-edited with Helen Damico, Indiana UP, 1990 "Betwene Ernest and Game": The Literary Artistry of the "Confessio Amantis," Lang, 1989 Speech, Song, and Poetic Craft: The Artistry of the Cynewulf Canon, Lang, 1984 Guthlac of Croyland: A Study of Heroic Hagiography, Univ. Press of America, 1981 "Proteus in Latin: Vernacular Tradition and the Boniface Collection," New Directions in Oral Theory. Ed. Mark C. Amodio. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 107-24. Entries on double monasteries, Egburg, frauenlie, and valkyries in Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Katharina M. Wilson and Nadia Margolis. Westport: Greenwoiod Press, 2004, 260-62, 286-87, 347-49, and 915-18, "Subtractive Rectification and the Old English Riming Poem," In Geardagum 24 (2003), 57-66. "Aelfric and Old English Poetry," In Geardagum 22 (2001), 1-18 "St Cuthbert," Ancient British Saints Symposium. Ed. Lester Michael Bundy. Denver: St. John Chrysotom Institute of Orthodox Studies, 2001, 32-37 "Old English Re-tellings of Judeo-Christian Stories," The St. Mark Lion, 126 (2001), 2-5 "St. Guthlac and St. Pega in the South English Legendary," 2000, http://www.umilta.net/guthlac.html "Scop," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, NY: Grove, 2001, vol. 22, article 40756. "The Valkyrie Reflex in Havelok the Dane," in Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic: In Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. Ed. Loren C. Gruber. Mellen, 2000. Pp. 317-35. "Saint Pega and Saint Guthlac, Hermits," Godfriends website, URL www.umilta.net/pega.html "Eadburg, Lioba, Berhtgyth, and Others: Women Associated with Boniface," Godfriends website, URL www.umilta.net/boniface.html "Texts with Roots in Oral Tradition: Beowulf," Teaching Oral Tradition. Ed. John M. Foley. The Modern Language Assn., 1998, pp. 351-58 "The Homiletic Tradition in Old English." In Geardagum 18 (1997): 1-13. "Re-Vision: A Comparison of A Canticle for Leibowitz and the Novellas Originally Published." Extrapolation, 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1997): 135-49. "Gender Roles." A Beowulf Handbook. Ed. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles. U of Nebraska, 1997. Pp. 311-24 "Old English Women, Old English Men: A Reconsideration of the `Minor' Characters." Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings Ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe. Garland, 1994. Pp. 65-83 "Oral Tradition in the Middle English Romance: The Case of Robert of Cisyle." Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry. Ed. Mark Amodio. Garland, 1994. Pp. 71-87 "Formulaic Tradition and the Latin Waltharius Poesis," Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. Ed. Helen Damico and John Leyerle. Medieval Institute Publications, 1993. Pp. 265-282 "The Aesthetics of Andreas: The Contexts of Oral Tradition and Patristic Latin Poetry." De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir. Ed. John Miles Foley. Garland, 1992. Pp. 388-410 "Cynewulf's Autonomous Women: A Reconsideration of Elene and Juliana." In New Readings. Ed. Damico and Olsen. Pp. 222-32 Current Research Old English (including women in Old English), Middle English, hagiography, oral literature, medieval folklore Courses Taught Graduate Level Old English Beowulf Middle English Literature Exclusive of Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Chaucer's Early Works Medieval Women Writers Medieval Romance Middle English Dream Vision English and Continental Medieval Literature Structure of the English Language History of the English Language Structure and History of the English Language Introductory Old Norse Old Norse Readings Middle High German Undergraduate Level English Literature I, Beowulf to Spenser Shakespeare, Representative Plays Literary Images of Women's Lives Fantasy and Science Fiction Freshman Co-ordinated Humanities Program: Greek and Roman Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Literature Arts and Humanities Core: Community, the Individual, and the Quest for the Good Life and Sources of Civilization: The Making of the European Middle Ages English Grammar World Masterpieces
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