The Exeter Book (Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3501) is a tenth-century, early medieval manuscript, which includes some of the most celebrated works of early English poetry. Traditional scholarly approaches to this material have argued for a resonance of this poetry within a monastic, Christian tradition. (Förster 1933, Orton 2016, Niles 2019). However, there has recently […]
C42: Retranslating History: Translating the Biography of General Liu Chi-Min
This project aimed to use information from interviews with the original author (Mouchu Cheng) to contextualize the poor translation and rewrite it. Since some of the chapters focused on too many technical details to be feasible for a one-year project, we focused on translating the chapters in the book that detail Liu Chi-Min’s life rather […]
A71: Risk Consciousness in Don DeLillo’s Literature
My research project is a humanities, literary and cultural analysis of author Don DeLillo’s fiction and how it intersects with the growing academic discourse of risk. My essay examines the development of risk consciousness in Don DeLillo’s literature in the face of major technological advancements that have fundamentally changed our conception of risk and risk […]
B06: Rewriting Marginality: Depictions of Greek Myth in Contemporary Literature
In recent years, a notable number of novels that reimagine Ancient Greek mythology have been published and received considerable attention among popular audiences. These novels deserve equal attention by scholars in the field of classical reception, which focuses on the treatment and appropriation of ancient myth. Classical reception asks, what features of ancient myth have […]