ELIZABETH A. BONNETTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Elizabeth A. Bonnette is a Ph.D. candidate in the the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation, "Remembering Things: Transformative Objects and Community Conflict in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England," examines the work of memorials and memorialization in texts depicting religious identities in conflict. Her main focus is on hagiography and history writing, with special attention to the re-interpretation of Anglo-Saxon saints' cults in post-Conquest England. Her other interests include: historical and "hagiographical" English romances of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the "matter of Araby" in late medieval England; and gender, pilgrimage, and healing.
ARTHUR BANGS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Arthur Bangs is a Master of Arts student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include Old and Middle English poetry, medieval theology and philosophy, romance, drama, and philology.
BENJAMIN BREYER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Benjamin Breyer is an M. Phil. candidate in the the Department at English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His interests include Norse, Old and Middle English literature, narratology, historiography, epics and sagas, and mystical texts. He is also interested in narrative theories of film.
IRINA DUMITRESCU, YALE UNIVERSITY
Irina Dumitrescu is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Medieval Studies at Yale, and currently an Exchange Scholar in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. Her thesis, "The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature," is an examination of the role of pain in literary depictions of teacher-student encounters in Old English and Anglo-Latin texts. She also has interests in: performance studies; medieval obscenity, humour, and violence (especially in conjunction with grammar learning); African American literature; and twentieth-century immigrant writing, especially in German and French.
JENNIFER GARRISON, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Jennifer Garrison is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University.
AARON HOSTETTER, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Aaron Hostetter is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Princeton. He is writing a dissertation entitled "The Politics of Eating and Cooking in Medieval Romance," which engages the ways that food and cooking are used to complicate and enrich discussions of political authority, temporal identity, aristocratic conduct, and the place of gendered bodies in several medieval romances. His interests include Old and Middle English literature, Marxist theory and criticism, penitentials and confession, alliterative poetry, John Gower, The Faerie Queene, children's literature, and pedagogy. He is also engaged in an extensive project to retranslate the Old English narrative poems that usually take a backseat to Beowulf, including Andreas, Elene and the Genesis (online at http://anglosaxonpoetry.blogspot.com).
MARY KATE HURLEY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Mary Kate Hurley is a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University's department of English and Comparative Literature. Her dissertation, called "Writing and Rewriting Collectivities in the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries" engages with questions of time, translation and the formation of proto-national identity in the medieval period. Other interests include monstrosity, literary translation, and the Old English poem "The Wanderer." She is a member of the BABEL and MEARCSTAPA workgroups.
MATT KOHL, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Matt Kohl is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at New York University. His interests are primarily in Anglo-Saxon poetry, Old and Middle English language, translation, and English lexicography. He's currently working as an Editorial Researcher at the Oxford English Dictionary.
JENNIFER LICHTBLAU, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Jennifer Lichtblau is an M.Phil. candidate in Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature.
BRIGIT MCGUIRE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Brigit McGuire is an M. Phil. candidate in Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature. She is currently working on an oral exam field entitled "Technologies of Knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England," about how Anglo-Saxon texts claim to produce, transmit, and
conceal knowledge. After passing her exams she hopes to write a dissertation on gendered knowledge in Anglo-Saxon and later texts, focusing on gendered bodies of knowledge and / or scenes of women as teachers and knowledge producers. She's also extremely interested in the intersection of late classical "encyclopedisms" with Anglo-Saxon catalogues such as the riddles or so-called catalogue poems, and hopes one day to write and think more about how these genres both inform and diverge from one another.
LYTTON SMITH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Lytton Smith is an M.Phil candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He earned a B.A. from University College London, and an M.F.A. (Poetry) from Columbia University. His interests include Anglo-Saxon poetry and poetics, Old Icelandic literature, travel, gender, 20th century poetry, and the adjancency of the periods designated "medieval" and "modern." Most recently, he has been working on Beowulf and the Exeter Book. He has presented papers at ASSC and other conferences on semantic ambiguity in the Riddles and on comparitive readings of Anglo-Saxon poetics alongside contemporary American poets such as Dan Beachy-Quick.
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