Irina Dumitrescu

Monograph

The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Reviewed in Speculum, English Studies, British Journal of Educational Studies, Parergon, Anglia, The Times Literary Supplement

Edited Journal Issues

In Brief. Special issue of New Literary History, co-edited with Bruce Holsinger. Forthcoming.

Women’s Arts of the Body. Special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum, co-edited with Emma Bérat. In preparation.

Edited Books

Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages. Co-edited with Emma Bérat and Rebecca Hardie. In preparation.

Anglo-Saxon Women: A Florilegium. Co-edited with Emily Butler and Hilary Fox. In preparation.

The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History. Co-edited with Eric Weiskott. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019.

Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016.

Reviewed in Bitch Magazine, Glasgow Review of Books, The Progressive Populist, postmedieval, Anomaly, The Cresset

Journal Articles 

“The Martyred Tongue: The Legendaries of Prudentius and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.” postmedieval, 3.8 (2017): 334–351.

“Beautiful Suffering and the Culpable Narrator in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.” The Chaucer Review 52.1 (2017): 106-123.

“The Borrower’s Sin in the Middle English ‘Judas’.” Anglia 131.4 (2013): 509–537.

“Bede’s Liberation Philology: Releasing the English Tongue.” PMLA 128.1 (2013): 40-56.

“Violence, Performance and Pedagogy in Ælfric Bata’s Colloquies.” Exemplaria 23.1 (2011): 67-91.

“The Grammar of Pain in Ælfric Bata’s Colloquies.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 45:3 (2009): 239-253.

Essays in Collections 

“Beowulf and Andreas: intimate relations.” Forthcoming in Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy, edited by Erica Weaver and Daniel C. Remein. In production at Manchester University Press.

“Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry.” The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History, edited by Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. 215-236.

“Peter Abaelards neues Charisma und die Erinnerung an die Asketen der Antike.” Erinnerung. Studien zu Konstruktionen Persistenzen und gesellschaftlichem Wandel. Eds. Christoph Michels, Rozbeh Asmani, Clarissa Blume-Jung. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018. 241-270.

“Englischsprachige fiktionale Texte muslimischer Autorinnen. Möglichkeiten der Repräsentation.” Migration. Gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben im Wandel. Eds. Anne Friedrichs, Susanne L. Gössl, Elisa Hoven, Andrea U. Steinbicker. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018. 125-147.

“Literary Multilingualism in Everyday Life: The Case of Early Modern Vulgaria.” Das literarische Leben der Mehrsprachigkeit. Methodische Erkundungen, eds. Till Dembeck and Anne Uhrmacher. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2016. 95-111.

“Introduction.”Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. xiii-xxiii.

“Poems in Prison: The Survival Strategies of Romanian Political Prisoners.” Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 15-30.

“Pas de Philologie: On Playful Appropriation and the Anglo-Saxon Scholar.” Des nains ou des géants. Emprunter et créer au Moyen Âge, eds. Claude Andrault-Schmitt, Edina Bozoky, and Stephen Morrison. Culture et Société Médiévales, Brepols, 2015. 181-200.

“Verbal dueling.” Dragons in the Sky: English-Speaking Communities at the Close of the Millennia. Eds. Stuart Lee and Patrick W. Conner. Online book at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/dits/. 2002.

Short Pieces

“Epigram.” Forthcoming in a special issue of New Literary History titled “In Brief,” edited by Bruce Holsinger and Irina Dumitrescu.

“Afterword.” With Mary Kate Hurley. Forthcoming in Remembering the Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, edited by Brian O’Camb and Jay Gates, forthcoming from Brill.

“Ælfric Bata.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, eds. Robert Rouse and Siân Echard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 13-14.

“Solomon and Saturn.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, eds. Robert Rouse and Siân Echard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 1738-40.

“The Practice of Dissent.” postmedieval FORUM. Ed. Holly Crocker. 2012.

Reviews

Sarah Lynch, Medieval Pedagogical Writings: An Epitome. Leeds, UK: Kismet Press, 2018. The Medieval Review 19.03.10.

Aaron Hostetter, Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2017. Arthuriana 28.3 (2018): 115-6.

Allen J. Frantzen, Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2014. Cultural History 5.1 (2016): 105-107.

Nicholas Orme, ed., English School Exercises, 1420-1530. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013. Journal of Medieval Latin 25 (2015): 276-279.

László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Carella, eds. Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: Exploring the Vernacular. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012. Anglia 133.4 (2015): 759-762.

Cindy Ott, Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2012. Cultural History 3.2 (2014): 200-201.