Associate Professor, Department Chair, Undergraduate Faculty Advisor
Old Norse
Professor Heslop’s research centres on Old Norse textual culture, especially skaldic and eddic poetry, the sagas and the heroic tradition. She approaches this material from a medial perspective, and asks what ‘media theory’ we can detect– in an epoch before the mass media—in Old Norse texts and images. Relevant here is not only the media transition associated with the arrival of manuscript textuality, but also multi- and intermedial phenomena in images, inscriptions, and texts. A complementary area of current research interest, medieval Scandinavian representations and...
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