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:
"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
