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Publications:

  • "Bede's Liberation Philology: Releasing the English Tongue." Forthcoming in PMLA.

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

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

  • “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.

Courses/Seminars:

Undergraduate Courses

  • Introduction to Literary Study

  • Studies in Medieval Literature: Medieval Epic

  • Topics in Medieval Literature: Old English Language and Literature

  • Topics in Medieval Literature: Anglo-Saxon Literature

  • Medieval Writers: Violence in Medieval Literature

Graduate Courses and Instruction

  • Medieval Literature: How the English Learned to Read (Proseminar)

Irina Dumitrescu specializes in Anglo-Saxon literature. Research interests include performance studies, language learning, and sex, violence and humour in the Middle Ages. She is completing a book on desire and pain in Anglo-Saxon depictions of pedagogical encounters.
   
Irina A. Dumitrescu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
 
Office:   Dallas Hall Room 11
Office Hours:   TTh 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Phone:   214-768-3078
Email:   idumitrescu@smu.edu

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