Andrew Scheil

Contact Me

ascheil@umn.edu

English Department
310E LindH

207 Church Street SE

Affiliations

• English
• Medieval Studies, Center for
• Religious Studies
• Jewish Studies, Center for
• German, Scandinavian and Dutch

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English, University of Toronto, 1996.
• M.A. : English, University of Toronto, 1991.
• B.A.: English and History, Rutgers University, Henry Rutgers Scholar, 1990.

Specialties

• Old English language and literature
• literatures and cultures of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
• medieval Latin literature
• Middle English literature
• literary theory
• traditions of exegesis, historiography and geography in the Middle Ages
• science-fiction, fantasy, and horror literature

Courses Taught

• Old English I
• Old English II
• Textual Analysis
• Shakespeare
• Monsters, Marvels and the Uncanny in the Western Tradition (honors)
• Survey of Medieval English Literature
• Medieval Hagiography
• ENGL 1001 Introduction to Literature

Publications

• Babylon Under Western Eyes: A Study of Allusion and Myth, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.)
• “Courtly Love on Mars: E. R. Burroughs and the Medieval Lineage of Planetary Romance,”Medieval Science Fiction, ed. Carl Kears and James Paz, King’s College London Medieval Studies (London: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King’s College London, 2016), 201-216.
• “Transition and Renewal: Jews and the Church Year in Anglo-Saxon England” in Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. Samantha Zacher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), 108-127.
• “Beowulf Handbooks and Guides,” Teaching Beowulf in the 21st Century, ed. Allen J. Frantzen, Howell D. Chickering, and R.F. Yeager (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014).
• “Sacred History and Old English Religious Poetry” in The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature, 500-1150, ed. Clare Lees (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 406-26.
• “Space and Place” in A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. R. Trilling and J. Stodnick (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 197-213.
• "Beowulf and the Emergent Occasion," Literary Imagination 11.1 (2009): 83-98.
• "The Historiographic Dimensions of Beowulf,"Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107.3 (2008): 281-302.
• The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004). Link
• "Babylon and Anglo-Saxon England," Studies in the Literary Imagination 36.1 (2003): 37-58.
• “Bodies and Boundaries in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt,”Neophilologus 84 (2000): 137-156.
• “Anti-Judaism in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints,” Anglo-Saxon England 28 (1999): 65-86.
• "Somatic Ambiguity and Masculine Desire in the Old English Life of Euphrosyne,”Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory and Medieval Studies 11.2 (1999): 345-61.

Awards

• Donald V. Hawkins Professorship, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 2015 - 2018
• McKnight Presidential Fellow, 2007 - 2010
• Solmsen Residential Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008 - 2009
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007 - 2008
• John Nicholas Brown Prize (2008) of the Medieval Academy of America
• Best First Book Prize (2005) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS)