Beowulf – Maria Dahvana Headley

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General Resources:

• "Overview of the Poem Beowulf" from ThoughtCo

• "Beowulf" entry from Brittanica

• Beowulf manuscript from The British Library

• "Beowulf Is Back!" by James Parker for The Atlantic

• "Grendel and His Mother" by Toni Morrison

Resources Specific to Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf:

• Teacher's Guide to Headley's translation

• "Beowulf, ICYMI: A conversation with Maria Dahvana Headley on Beowulf: A New Translation" by Mia Armstrong for Slate

• "A 'Beowulf' for Our Moment" by Ruth Franklin for The New Yorker

• "Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know" by Jason Sheenan for NPR

• "This new translation of Beowulf brings the poem to profane, funny, hot-blooded life" by Constance Grady for Vox

• "A New, Feminist Translation of Beowulf" by Mark Scroggins for Hyperallergic

PODCASTS:

• • "Episode 208: Beowulf (with Maria Dahvana Headley)" from Spirits Podcast

  • "Maria Dahvana Headley: Beowulf" from The Book Club podcast from The Spectator

  • "The Mere Wife and Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley" from Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast

  • "Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking" from Fiction/Non/Fiction by LitHub

VIDEO:

• • "Maria Dahvana Headley on the importance of Grendel’s mother’s sorrow in ‘Beowulf’" from PBS NewsHour via YouTube

  • "Maria Dahvana Headley: A Reading and Conversation" from College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University Fine Arts Programming via YouTube

  • "Translating for a World on Fire: Maria Dahvana Headley and Emily Wilson" from Columbia University School of the Arts

  • "Radical Translations: Maria Dahvana Headley, Emily Wilson, and Madeline Miller" from The Center for Fiction