{"id":3708,"date":"2024-08-26T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T17:31:11","slug":"lecturer-publishes-article-on-beowulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2024\/08\/26\/lecturer-publishes-article-on-beowulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecturer Publishes Article on Beowulf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lisa Myers, Term Lecturer and 2015 alumna in Medieval Studies, recently published her article, \u201cThe Ruined Landscapes of&nbsp;<em>Beowulf<\/em>: Apocalypse and Hope\u201d in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/journals\/studies-in-philology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Studies in Philology<\/a><\/em>. In this article, Dr. Myers examines the influence of the topography of early medieval England upon the landscape settings of the famous English epic,&nbsp;<em>Beowulf<\/em>, directly connecting prehistoric and Roman archaeological evidence to the poet\u2019s depiction of the lair of the Grendel-kin, the dragon\u2019s barrow and Beowulf\u2019s barrow. Her analysis and application of environmental history reveals the ways in which the poet\u2019s creative use of ruined environments enhances the apocalyptic tone of the epic while also providing some hope for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Myers, Term Lecturer and 2015 alumna in Medieval Studies, recently published her article, \u201cThe Ruined Landscapes of&nbsp;Beowulf: Apocalypse and Hope\u201d in&nbsp;Studies in Philology. In this article, Dr. Myers examines the influence of the topography of early medieval England upon the landscape settings of the famous English epic,&nbsp;Beowulf, directly connecting prehistoric and Roman archaeological evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}