Susan E. Deskis

Associate Professor

Educational Background

Professional Interests

Selected Publications

• “Canvassed, or Tossed in a Blanket: Tracing a Motif from the Second Shepherds’ Play through the Seventeenth Century,” Notes & Queries 54.3 (Sept. 2007), 325-28.
• “Echoes of Old English Alliterative Collocations in Middle English Alliterative Proverbs,” in Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Thomas N. Hall, and Frederick Biggs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 311-25.
• “Exploring Text and Discourse in the Old English Gnomic Poems: The Problem of Narrative,” JEGP 104 (2005), 326-44.
• “Beowulf” and the Medieval Proverb Tradition, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 155 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Press for MRTS, 1996).

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