Donna Beth Ellard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5987586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Beth Ellard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellard |
| SIGNATURE | ELLARD D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lareowas ond leornungcnihtas
Recovering Old English
OED . ‘Anglo-Saxonist, n.’
In this essay, I examine the figure of the ‘Anglo-Saxonist’. Although this overtly racialized term describes a person whose affinities point towards white nationalism, that scholars continue to call themselves Anglo-Saxonists suggests that ‘Anglo-Saxonist’ is much more than just a professional appellative. It is, I argue, a ghost in the machine of Anglo-Saxon studies – a spectral figure of white supremacy that haunts this interdisciplinary field.…
Historical hauntings
Communicating Between Species and Between Disciplines—Lessons from the Old English Seafarer
This article examines the analogy of birdsong in the Old English Seafarer as an access point for critical and meta-critical discussions regarding the communicative prohibitions and possibilities between birds and humans, literary criticism, and the biosciences. It argues that while the seafarer initially hears the calls of birds within the analogical framework of birdsong, on the ocean such a position is short-lived. The seafarer recalibrates his…
Ella’s bloody eagle
Going Interspecies, Going Interlingual, and Flying Away with the Phoenix
This article examines the Phoenix as a poem that is deeply sensitive to Anglo-Saxon ecosystems and considers the importance of bird behaviors in relation to Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon cultural productions. In this poem, native, Anglo-Saxon biota and Old English alliterative formulas function as interdependent, terrestrial, and poetic ecosystems. The phoenix is at the center of these networks, but locating it requires both the Old English …
Going Interspecies, Going Interlingual, and Flying Away with the Phoenix
This article examines the Phoenix as a poem that is deeply sensitive to Anglo-Saxon ecosystems and considers the importance of bird behaviors in relation to Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon cultural productions. In this poem, native, Anglo-Saxon biota and Old English alliterative formulas function as interdependent, terrestrial, and poetic ecosystems. The phoenix is at the center of these networks, but locating it requires both the Old English …
Ella’s bloody eagle
Historical hauntings
Going Interspecies, Going Interlingual, and Flying Away with the Phoenix
This article examines the Phoenix as a poem that is deeply sensitive to Anglo-Saxon ecosystems and considers the importance of bird behaviors in relation to Old English poetry and Anglo-Saxon cultural productions. In this poem, native, Anglo-Saxon biota and Old English alliterative formulas function as interdependent, terrestrial, and poetic ecosystems. The phoenix is at the center of these networks, but locating it requires both the Old English …
Ella’s bloody eagle
Communicating Between Species and Between Disciplines—Lessons from the Old English Seafarer
This article examines the analogy of birdsong in the Old English Seafarer as an access point for critical and meta-critical discussions regarding the communicative prohibitions and possibilities between birds and humans, literary criticism, and the biosciences. It argues that while the seafarer initially hears the calls of birds within the analogical framework of birdsong, on the ocean such a position is short-lived. The seafarer recalibrates his…
OED . ‘Anglo-Saxonist, n.’
In this essay, I examine the figure of the ‘Anglo-Saxonist’. Although this overtly racialized term describes a person whose affinities point towards white nationalism, that scholars continue to call themselves Anglo-Saxonists suggests that ‘Anglo-Saxonist’ is much more than just a professional appellative. It is, I argue, a ghost in the machine of Anglo-Saxon studies – a spectral figure of white supremacy that haunts this interdisciplinary field.…
Historical hauntings
Recovering Old English
Lareowas ond leornungcnihtas
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