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Leonard Neidorf
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NationalityAmerican
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Academic work
DisciplinePhilology
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Main interestsOld English and Middle English literature
Notable worksThe Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (2017)

Leonard Neidorf

FRHistS (born c. 1988) is an American philologist who is Professor of English at Nanjing University. Neidorf specializes in the study of Old English and Middle English literature, and is a known authority on Beowulf.[1]

Biography

Raised in

PhD in English from Harvard University in 2014.[3] Upon gaining his PhD, Neidorf became a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows (2014-2016). Admittance to the Harvard Society of Fellows is considered one of the greatest academic achievements possible in the United States.[2] Since 2016, Neidorf has been Professor of English at Nanjing University.[1]

Research

Leonard Neidorf specializes in the study of

The Dream of the Rood.[16][17][18][19] His research addresses questions of authorship, interpretation, literary history, and textual criticism. In addition to his traditional philological research, Neidorf has published several large-scale quantitative studies of the corpus of Old English poetry.[20][21][22]

Neidorf's studies of Beowulf situate the poem in a wide variety of contexts. He explicates its text in relation to

Old English meter, Neidorf defends the metrical theories of Eduard Sievers and Robert D. Fulk.[6][34] He argues for the utility of meter as a tool in the editing and dating of Old English poetry.[35] In his methodological writing, Neidorf draws on the epistemology of Karl Popper and argues for the importance of falsifiability and probabilism in literary studies.[36][4]

Neidorf collaborated with eminent medievalist Tom Shippey on 'Beowulf': Translation and Commentary (2023), which presents the original text of Beowulf along with a facing-page translation, an extensive commentary, supplementary essays, and a substantial bibliography. In his review on the back cover, Francis Leneghan of the University of Oxford described the collaborative volume as "the perfect book for the first-time reader of Beowulf and essential reading for all scholars."[37]

Selected works

  • The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, 2014[38]
  • Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (with Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey), 2016[38]
  • The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior, 2017[38]
  • The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, 2022[38]
  • Beowulf: Translation and Commentary (with Tom Shippey), 2023[38]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Leonard Neidorf". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Krum, Logan (June 28, 2017). "From Eastern to Harvard to China". Sun Newspapers. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Prof. Leonard Neidorf" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Neidorf, Leonard (2015). "On Beowulf and Biology: Empirical Methodology in Humanistic Research". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
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  37. ^ https://uppsalabooks.com/beowulf
  38. ^ a b c d e "Publications". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.

External links

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