Chris VinsonhalerChris Vinsonhaler is a former professor at the City University of New York and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.She is a scholar, translator, and performer whose work focuses on Old English literature, medieval poetics, andthe cultural afterlives of early Germanic texts. Chris has spent more than two decades studying and performing Beowulf, developing an interpretive approach that combines close philological reading with attention to narrative structure, material culture, and moral patterning. Her work explores how poetry encodes violence, memory, and judgment through form as much as through theme. Beowulf: Book One inaugurates a multi-volume project encompassing scholarly editions, public-facing translations, and performative adaptations. Read More Read Less