Monographs (2)
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)
The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017)
Edited Books (4)
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary, ed. Leonard Neidorf, trans. Tom Shippey (London: Uppsala Books, 2023)
Epic and Romance: A Guide to Medieval European Literature, ed. Leonard Neidorf and Yang Liu (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2021)
Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016)
The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014)
Articles (48)
“Woden and Maxims I,” Traditio (forthcoming)
“Heremod and Óðinn: From Beowulf to Snorri’s Prose Edda,” Folklore (forthcoming)
“On Hyndluljóð Stanza 2: Óðinn’s Gift to Hermóðr and Starkaðr’s Murder of Áli,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology (forthcoming) [with Zixuan Wei]
“The Heremod Digressions in Beowulf: A Reassessment,” Neophilologus (forthcoming)
“The Language of Wealhtheow’s Speech,” Studia Neophilologica (forthcoming) [with Nirada Chitrakara]
“The Origin of Hondscioh: Grendel’s Glove and the Beowulf Tradition,” Studia Neophilologica (forthcoming)
“Óðinn as Cargo-God: A Suggestion from Beowulf,” Neophilologus 107 (2023): 413-29 [with Na Xu]
“Beowulf Lines 175-88 and the Transmission of Old English Poetry,” Studies in Philology 119 (2022): 1-24
“Woden and the English Landscape: The Naming of Wansdyke Reconsidered,” Folklore 133 (2022): 378-98
“King Hygelac of the Geats: History, Legend, and Beowulf,” Neophilologus 106 (2022): 461-77
“Woden and Widsith,” English Studies 103 (2022): 1-18
“The Germanic Onomasticon and the Etymology of Beowulf’s Name,” Neophilologus 106 (2022): 109-26 [with Chenyun Zhu]
“Goths, Huns, and The Dream of the Rood,” Review of English Studies 72 (2021): 821-35
“The Ruthwell Cross Inscription and The Dream of the Rood Line 58,” Studia Neophilologica 93 (2021): 333-40
“The Beowulf Poet's Sense of Decorum,” Traditio 76 (2021): 1-28
“Grendel's Blood: On the Translation of Beowulf Line 849,” Medium Ævum 90 (2021): 133-42
“A Reading of Precepts: Language, Genre, Context, and Interpretation,” Studia Neophilologica 93 (2021): 34-49
“On Beowulf and the Nibelungenlied: Counselors, Queens, and Characterization,” Neohelicon 47 (2020): 655-72
“The Textual Criticism of The Dream of the Rood,” English Studies 101 (2020): 519-36 [with Na Xu]
“Nicolay Yakovlev's Theory of Old English Meter: A Reassessment,” Neophilologus 104 (2020): 245-53 [with Rafael J. Pascual]
“The Structure and Theme of The Fortunes of Men,” English Studies 101 (2020): 97-111
“Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Postcolonial Imagination: Wine, Wealth, and Romanitas,” Modern Philology 117 (2019): 149-62
“Maxims II, Line 10: Truth and Textual Criticism,” Studia Neophilologica 91 (2019): 241-48
“Line Length in Old English Poetry: A Chronological and Stylistic Criterion,” Neophilologus 103 (2019): 561-75 [with Yi Zhao and Jie Yu]
“Large-Scale Quantitative Profiling of the Old English Verse Tradition,” Nature Human Behaviour 3 (2019): 560-67 [with M. Krieger, M. Yakubek, P. Chaudhuri, and J. Dexter]
“Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment,” Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31 (2019): 298-322 [with Rafael J. Pascual]
“The Language of Hrothgar’s Sermon,” Studia Neophilologica 91 (2019): 1-10
“Beowulf as Pre-National Epic: Ethnocentrism in the Poem and its Criticism,” ELH 85 (2018): 847-75
“An Old Norse Analogue to Wiglaf’s Lament (Beowulf Lines 3077-3086),” Neophilologus 102 (2018): 515-24
“The Archetype of Beowulf,” English Studies 99 (2018): 229-42
“Wealhtheow and Her Name: Etymology, Characterization, and Textual Criticism,” Neophilologus 102 (2018): 75-89
“J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: Creation from Literary Criticism,” Tolkien Studies 14 (2017): 91-113
“Hildeburh’s Mourning and The Wife’s Lament,” Studia Neophilologica 89 (2017): 197-204
“Unferth’s Ambiguity and the Trivialization of Germanic Legend,” Neophilologus 101 (2017): 439-54
“The Composite Authorship of The Dream of the Rood,” Anglo-Saxon England 45 (2016): 49-68
“On the Dating and Authorship of Maxims I,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 117 (2016): 137-53
“The Pejoration of Gædeling: From Old Germanic Consanguinity to Middle English Vulgarity,” Modern Philology 113 (2016): 441-59
“Archbishop Wulfstan’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” English Studies 97 (2016): 207-25
“Philology, Allegory, and the Dating of Beowulf,” Studia Neophilologica 88 (2016): 97-115
“On the Epistemology of Old English Scholarship,” Neophilologus 99 (2015): 631-46
“Cain, Cam, Jutes, Giants, and the Textual Criticism of Beowulf,” Studies in Philology 112 (2015): 599-632
“The Language of Beowulf and the Conditioning of Kaluza's Law,” Neophilologus 98 (2014): 657-73 [with Rafael J. Pascual]
“Lexical Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Old English Poetry,” SELIM 20 (2013-2014): 7-48
“Beowulf before Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon Anthroponymy and Heroic Legend,” Review of English Studies 64 (2013): 553-73
“Scribal Errors of Proper Names in the Beowulf Manuscript,” Anglo-Saxon England 42 (2013): 249-69
“The Dating of Widsið and the Study of Germanic Antiquity,” Neophilologus 97 (2013): 165-83
“II Æthelred and the Politics of The Battle of Maldon,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111 (2012): 451-73
“VII Æthelred and the Genesis of the Beowulf Manuscript,” Philological Quarterly 89 (2010): 119-39
Notes (19)
“The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage,” Notes and Queries (forthcoming)
“Heremod and the Jutes,” ANQ (forthcoming)
“Grendel and the Witches: Germanic Mythology and Beowulf Line 163,” ANQ (forthcoming) [with Kexin Zhang]
"Minor Germanic Deities and the Etymology of Beowulf's Name," ANQ (forthcoming) [with Chenyun Zhu]
“J.R.R. Tolkien and Bertha S. Phillpotts: A New Source for ‘The Monsters and the Critics,’” ANQ (2023): 255-58
“Verbs and Versification in The Dream of the Rood,” ANQ 35 (2022): 94-97
“Youth and Age in the Finnsburg Fragment,” ANQ 35 (2022): 4-8
“The Etymology of Freawaru's Name,” Notes and Queries 68 (2021): 379-83
“Beowulf and Freawaru,” The Explicator 79 (2021): 182-87
“The Gepids in Beowulf,” ANQ 34 (2021): 3-6
“Hygelac and His Daughter: Rereading Beowulf Lines 2985-98,” Medium Ævum 89 (2020): 350-55
“The Brussels Cross Inscription and the Finnsburg Fragment,” Notes & Queries 67 (2020): 327-30
“The Textual Condition of The Dream of the Rood Lines 75-7,” Notes & Queries 67 (2020): 312-15
“The Finnsburg Fragment, Line 14: Language and Legend,” The Explicator 78 (2020): 44-48
“The Emendation of Beowulf Line 156,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 120 (2019): 77-82
“Garulf and Guthlaf in the Finnsburg Fragment,” Notes & Queries 66 (2019): 489-92
“Dramatic Irony and Pagan Salvation in Beowulf,” ANQ 32 (2019): 137-39
“Caesar’s Wine and the Dating of Widsith,” Medium Ævum 88 (2019): 124-28
“Legends of Chilperic in Anglo-Saxon England,” ANQ 32 (2019): 6-8
Book Chapters (7)
“The Beowulf Poet and Daniel of Winchester: Conversion Strategies and the Appositive Style,”
in The Study of Style: Essays in English Language and Literature in Honour of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, ed. Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza, Rafael J. Pascual, Belén Soria, and Rocío G. Sumillera (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2019), 19-28
“Naming Children in Anglo-Saxon England: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Change,” in Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), 32-47
“Beowulf,” in Books to Film: Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Works, vol. 1, ed. Barry Keith Grant (Farmington Hills: Gale-Cengage, 2018), 21-24
“Metrical Criteria for the Emendation of Old English Poetic Texts,” in Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016), 52-68
“Introduction: R.D. Fulk and the Progress of Philology,” in Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016), 1-16
“Germanic Legend, Scribal Errors, and Cultural Change,” in The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), 37-57
“Introduction,” in The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), 1-18
Translations (1)
“The Condor and the Shepherdess (Bolivia),” “The Parrot Prince (Chile),” and “Nicholas the Fish (Colombia),” in Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales about Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World, ed. Maria Tatar (New York: Penguin Classics, 2017), 81-99.
Book Reviews (34)
“Katherine Marie Olley, Kinship in Old Norse Myth and Legend,” English Studies 104 (2023): 667-68
“Megan E. Hartman, Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon,” Style 56 (2022): 114-19
“Philip A. Shaw, Names and Naming in Beowulf: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition,” English Studies 103 (2022): 158-62
“John Lindow, Old Norse Mythology,” English Studies 102 (2021): 1171-72
“Mark Atherton, The Battle of Maldon: War and Peace in Tenth-Century England,” English Studies 102 (2021): 630-33
“Francis Leneghan, The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf,” Anglia 138 (2020): 535-40
“Beowulf: A Translation and a Reading, trans. Chris McCully,” English Studies 101 (2020):
510-13
“Susan Oosthuizen, The Emergence of the English,” Anglia 138 (2020): 302-6
“Beowulf in Parallel Texts, trans. Sung-Il Lee, with a foreword by Robert D. Stevick,” English Studies 100 (2019): 928-31
“Thijs Porck, Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History,” Modern Philology 117 (2019): E82-E84
“Robert DiNapoli, A Far Light: A Reading of Beowulf,” English Studies 100 (2019): 728-30
“Ciaran Arthur, ‘Charms’, Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England,” Anglia 137 (2019): 356-60
“Geoffrey Russom, The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry: From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter,” English Studies 100 (2019): 108-9
“Daniel Anlezark, Alfred the Great,” ANQ 32 (2019): 65-6
“Brittany E. Schorn, Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry,” ANQ 32 (2019): 67-8
“The Complete Old English Poems, trans. Craig Williamson, with an introduction by Tom Shippey,” English Studies 99 (2018): 705-11
“Elise Louviot, Direct Speech in Beowulf and Other Old English Narrative Poems,” English Studies 99 (2018): 580-82
“John Farrell, The Varieties of Authorial Intention: Literary Theory Beyond the Intentional Fallacy,” Studia Neophilologica 90 (2018): 269-72
“Tristan Major, Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature,” Anglia 136 (2018): 741-43
“Richard Sowerby, Angels in Early Medieval England,” Anglia 136 (2018): 542-45
“Juanita Feros Ruys, Demons in the Middle Ages,” Anglia 136 (2018): 546-48
“Susan E. Deskis, Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language Choice and Literary Meaning,” Modern Philology 115 (2018): E165-67
“Michael D.C. Drout, Yvette Kisor, Leah Smith, Allison Dennett, and Natasha Piirainen, Beowulf Unlocked: New Evidence from Lexomic Analysis,” ANQ 31 (2018): 64-7
“Jonathan Davis-Secord, Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature,” Philological Quarterly 96 (2017): 395-98
“Shami Ghosh, Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative,” ANQ 30 (2017): 275-76
“Andreas: An Edition, ed. Richard North and Michael D.J. Bintley,” Studia Neophilologica 89 (2017): 302-5
“The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation, ed. Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan,” Anglia 135 (2017): 587-89
“Michelle P. Brown, The Book and the Transformation of Britain, c. 550-1050: A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality,” Anglia 132 (2014): 604-6
“Genesis A: A New Edition, Revised, ed. A.N. Doane,” Anglia 132 (2014): 389-93
“Peter S. Baker, Honour, Exchange, and Violence in Beowulf,” Anglia 131 (2013): 646-48
“The Old English Epic of Waldere, ed. Jonathan B. Himes,” Anglia 130 (2012): 158-61
“Hugh Magennis, Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse,” Anglia 129 (2011): 481-84
“Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination, ed. David Clark and Nicholas Perkins,” Anglia 129 (2011): 152-55
“On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, ed. John M. Hill,” Anglia 129 (2011): 150-52
