Sharon Rhodes

Courses Taught: Medieval English Literature, Translation and Medieval England, Bible as Literature, British Literature Survey I, Introductory College Writing

Biography:

Sharon E. Rhodes studies Old and Middle English literature and Modern English linguistic discrimination. She also translates modern Danish literature.

Publications:

• “Wundor and Wrætlice: Wondrous Wordplay in the Old English Riddles.” How Riddles Work. Eds. Jennifer Neville and Megan Cavell. Manchester University Press, 2020.
• “Untangling the Myth of Linguistic Purity in the Medieval Classroom.” The Material Collective, 2019.
• “Legible Leprosy: Skin Disease in The Testament of Cresseid, Chaucer’s Summoner and Amis and Amiloun.” Chaucerian Skin Matters. Eds. Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp. Anglia, 2018.
• “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Co-authored with Thomas Hahn. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2017.
• “Translating the Context: Orm’s Pre-Reformation Vernacular Bible Translation.” The Medieval Translator: Translation and Authority — Authorities in Translation, Eds. Pieter De Leemans and Michèle Goyens. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016.
• “The Ruin” and “The Seafarer.” (trans. from the Old English) Inventory 7 (2016).
• “Riddle 53.” and “Commentary for Riddle 53.” The Riddle Ages. Eds. Megan Cavell and Matthias Ammon, 2016.
• “Review: The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England by Rebecca Brackman.” Medievally Speaking (2013).
• “Teaching Beowulf and Other Old English Poems: An Annotated Bibliography for Teachers.” The Once and Future Classroom. 10.1 (2012).
• “Hali Meiðhad: Normalizing the Sponsae Christi.” Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism 3 (2010)."