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Emily V. Thornbury

Assistant Professor
434 Wheeler
thornbury@berkeley.edu


Specialties

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

'Building with the Rubble of the Past: The Old English Translator of the Gospel of Nicodemus and his Flawed Source.' In Anglo-Saxon Traces, ed. Jane Roberts and Leslie Webster. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2011. Pp. 297-318.

‘Ælfric’s Zoology.’ Neophilologus 92 (2008): 141-53.

‘Aldhelm’s Rejection of the Muses and the Mechanics of Poetic Inspiration in Early Anglo-Saxon England.' Anglo-Saxon England 36 (2007): 71-92.

‘“Ða Gregorius gamenode mid his wordum”: Old English Versions of Gregory’s Bilingual Puns.’ Leeds Studies in English 38 (2007): 17-30.

‘Admiring the Ruined Text: the Picturesque in Editions of Old English Verse.’ New Medieval Literatures 8 (2006): 215-44.

Christ and Satan: “Healing” Line 7.’ English Studies 87 (2006): 505-10.



Current Research

I've worked extensively on the role of poets and poetry in Anglo-Saxon England; my monograph on the topic, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England, is forthcoming. New projects include work on Anglo-Saxon aesthetic categories, and on the effects of scarcity on texts (and narratives) in early England.



Recent English Courses Taught