Beowulf at Kalamazoo

Jana K. Schulman is Professor of English at Western Michigan University specializing in law and literature in medieval Iceland and Anglo-Saxon England. Paul E. Szarmach is Professor Emeritus of English at Western Michigan University, as well as the former Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of American and of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. His research and publications have focused on Anglo-Saxon literature and culture.

• IntroductionPart 1. Essays on TranslationThe Languages of Beowulf between Klaeber and Heaney by Daniel DonoghueWho’s Afraid of Translating Beowulf? by Nicholas HoweIron and Irony in Beowulf by R. M. LiuzzaMonstrous Introductions: Ellengaest and Aglaecwif by Jana K. SchulmanSweet's Prose Beowulf by Paul E. SzarmachBehemas þa Hildlatan: Beowulf and Its First Translation into Czech by Jan CermákBeowulf in Spanish by María José Gómez-CalderónBeowulf in Hungarian by Katalin Halácsy ScholzItalian Translations of Beowulf by Claudia Di Sciacca and Loredana TeresiThe Intimacy of Bjólfskviða by Pétur KnútssonPart 2. Essays on PerformancePerformance I: Beowulf (A Roundtable Discussion) by Mark Amodio, Benjamin Bagby, Karl Reichl, and John Miles FoleyWhy Performance Matters by John Miles Foley"Swutol sang scopes": Field Notes on the Performance of Beowulf by Karl ReichlPart 3. Reviews of Heaney's BeowulfBy Michael Alexander, S. A. J. Bradley, Graham Caie, Jan Cermák, Howell Chickering, Daniel Donoghue, Randi Eldevik, Loren C. Grube, Nicholas Howe, Heather O'Donoghue, Tom Shippey, E. G. Stanley, G. Storms, Julian Wasserman, Hideki Watanabe, Gernot Wieland, and Jonathan Wilcox