Dr. Megan Hartman

Biography

• Ph.D., English.  Indiana University. 2011.
• M.A., English.  Indiana University.  2005.
• B.A., English.  University of New Hampshire.  2003.

Areas of Academic & Teaching Interest

• Medieval Literature and Language
• Historical Linguistics
• Poetics
• Speculative Fiction

Professional Appointments

• Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2021-present
• Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2016-2021.
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2011-2016.
• Teaching Fellow, Indiana University, 2009-2011.
• Associate Instructor, Indiana University, 2005-2009.

Courses Taught

• English 101: Introduction to Academic Writing
• English 188: Portal: Old Norse Mythology in History and Popular Culture
• English 250: Introduction to British Literature
• English 254: Special Topics: Children’s and Young Adult Fantasy
• English 303: Introduction to Linguistics
• English 304: Grammar I
• English 388: Capstone: The Evolution of the Superhero
• English 404/804P: History of the English Language
• English 462/872P: Early and Middle English Literature
• English 826: Prosody: The Music of Poetic Form
• English 883: Colloquium: British Literature through 1700
• English 899: Special Topics: Old Norse Literature

Publications

Book

Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.

Edited Collection

with Peter Grund. Studies in the History of the English Language VIII: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2021.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Hypermetric Narrative in the Old English Daniel.” Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre. Ed. Rafael J. Pascual and Rachel Burns. ARC Humanities Press, 2022.

“Integrating Literary Approaches: Translation and Modernization.” Teaching History of the English Language. Ed. Colette Moore and Chris Palmer. Modern Language Association, 2019. 235-43.

“New Applications for Word Foot Theory.” Early English Poetic Culture and Metre: The Influence of G. R. Russom, eds. M. J. Toswell and Lindy Brady. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016, 73-91.

“Metrical Alternation in The Fortunes of Men.” Old English Philology: Studies in Honor of R.D. Fulk. Eds. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016. 311-330.

“A New Justification for an Old Analysis of the Hypermetric Onset.” Notes and Queries 62 (2015): 513-16.

“Style and Politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon.”  Studies in the History of the English Language VI: Evidence and Method in Histories of English. Ed Michael Adams, Laurel J. Brinton, and R. D. Fulk.  Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter Mouton, 2015. 201-18.

“The Limits of Poetic Conservatism in Old English Poetry.” The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment. Ed. Leonard Neidorf, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014. 79-96.

“Hypermetric Form in Old English Gnomic Poetry.” Studia Metrica et Poetica 1 (2014): 68-99.

“Beowulf Then and Now: Understanding Medieval Heroes through Modern Contrasts.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21.1 (2014): 51-69.

“Poetic Attitudes and Adaptations in Late Old English Verse.” Leeds Studies in English 43 (2012): 73-91.

“A Drawn-Out Beheading: Style, Theme, and Hypermetrics in the Old English Judith.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 110.4 (2011): 421-440.

“The Syntax of Old English Hypermetrics.” English Studies 91.4 (2010): 477-491.

“Stressed and Spaced Out: Manuscript Evidence for Beowulfian Prosody.” Anglo-Saxon 1 (2008): 201-220.

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