Chris Abram

Chris Abram's research brings early medieval literature from Great Britain and Scandinavia into conversation with contemporary discourses on religion, poetics, and the environment. He regularly teaches Old English and Old Norse language and literature, and has published on the sagas, skaldic poetry, Old English verse, Beowulf, and the transmission of homiletic texts around the North Sea cultural zone. Norse mythology is perhaps the most important area of focus in his work, both in its historical settings and its lingering and often surprising reverberations in modern art and life. He is currently working on a monograph that is tentatively entitled Experiments with Beowulf, in which he proposes a number of new "post-philological" reading strategies for the Old English poem.