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Heide R. Estes, Ph.D.

Professor

Graduate Faculty

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Ph.D., New York University

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Office
Wilson Annex 508
Phone
732-571-7547
Email
hestes@monmouth.edu
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Office Hours
Office hours by appointment. Please make appointments via email or Groupme.
Courses this Semester
EN 443 History of the English Language
Regularly Taught Courses
EN 211 Environment and Pre-Modern Literature
EN 307 Middle English Literature
EN 405 Chaucer
EN 443 History of the English Language
EN 509 Middle English Literature
EN 563 Linguistics
PR 448 Ecocriticism and Medieval England
About

Heide Estes is Professor of English at Monmouth University, where she regularly teaches medieval literature, ecocriticism, history of the English language, and linguistics. She is Chair of the University Qualifications Committee and co-chair of the Writing Committee, and member of the Faculty Association Diversity and Inclusion working group. She is founding director of the international scholarly group Medieval Ecocriticisms, and general editor of the group’s journal, published by Amsterdam University Press. Her book, Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination was published by Amsterdam University press in 2017. She is working on the essay collection Medieval Ecocriticisms: Animals, Landscapes, Objects, and the Nature of the Human and the monographs Gender, Disability, and Jews in Old English Poetry: Intersections and (with Nicole Guenther Discenza) Writing the World in Early Medieval England. She blogs about environmental issues and when not otherwise occupied can be found biking, kayaking, or playing Baroque music on the piano.

Research Interests

Old and Middle English language, literature and culture, with interest in gender theory and ecocriticism.

Publications
Books
Old English Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Anglo-Saxon Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam University Press, 2017.
Old English Across the Curriculum: Contexts and Pedagogies. Ed. Hal Momma and Heide Estes. Special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Vol 22, no. 2. Fall 2015.
Scholarly Articles

“Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith.” New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture, ed. Helene Scheck and Christine Kozikowski. ARC Humanities Press, 2019. 179-190.

“Reading Ælfric in the Twelfth Century: Anti-Judaic Doctrine Becomes Anti-Judaic Rhetoric.” Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, ed. Samantha Zacher. University of Toronto Press, 2016: 265-297.

“Teaching Old English in History of the English Language.” In Old English Across the Curriculum: Contexts and Pedagogies, ed. Haruko Momma and Heide Estes. Special Issue, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22.2 (Fall 2016): 25-29.

“Beowulf and the Sea: An Ecofeminist Reading.” The Maritime World of the Anglo-Saxons, ed. Bill Schipper, Stacy Klein, and Shannon Lewis-Simpson (Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies 5). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015: 209-216.

“Constructing the Old English Solomon and Saturn Dialogues.” English Studies 95.5 (July 2014): 483-499.

“Blogging and Academic Identity.” Literature Compass: E-medieval: Teaching, Research, and the Net 9.12 (December 2012): 974-982.

“Anglo-Saxon Biblical Lore: An Edition.” English Studies 93:6 (October 2012): 623-651.

“Raising Cain in Genesis and Beowulf: Challenges to Generic Boundaries in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Literature.” Heroic Age 13 (August 2010), unpaginated.

“Wonders and Wisdom: Anglo-Saxons and the East.” English Studies 91.4 (June 2010): 360 – 373.

“A Note on Solomon and Saturn I, lines 107b – 108a.” Notes and Queries 55: 3 (September 2008): 260 – 262.

“Abraham and the Northmen in Genesis A: Alfredian Translations and Ninth-Century Politics.” Medievalia et Humanistica 32 (2007): 1 – 13.

“Colonization and Conversion in Cynewulf’s Elene.” Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Catherine Karkov and Nicholas Howe. Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies 2. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 133 – 151

“Feasting with Holofernes: Digesting Judith in Anglo-Saxon England.” Exemplaria 15.2 (Fall 2003): 325 – 350.

“Bertilak Reads Brut: History and the Complications of Sexuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Essays in Medieval Studies 17 (2001): 65 – 79.

Multimedia

Monmouth Now

Estes’ Book Lauded by Oxford Academic Journal, April 2020
Presentations/Invited Talks

“Disability, Gender, and Jews: Masculinity in the Old English Andreas and Genesis.” The Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies, Columbia University, March 2020.

“What Can We Do?” Public talk on environmental engagement, Church of St. Anselm, Tinton Falls, NJ, January 2020.

“Embodied Ecocriticisms: Disability, Gender, and Medieval English Literature.” Appalachian State University, November 2019.

“Gender, Jews, and Disability in Old English Poetry.” Harvard Medieval Colloquium, Harvard University, October 24, 2019.

“Interdisciplinary Team Teaching to Improve Student Engagement.” With C. N. Duckett. SENCER Regional Conference, The New School, April 2019.

“Weather and the Creation of the Human in the Exeter Book Riddles,” Keynote lecture, Medieval Weathers, King’s College London, July 7, 2018.

“Beowulf and the Sea,” Plenary lecture, Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Moravian College, December 3, 2016.

“‘An Enemy Robbed Me of Life’: Voices of Nature in Old English Poetry,” Clare Hall Colloquium, June 5, 2015. Podcasted: http://upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1998557

“Ruined Landscapes in Old English Poetry,” Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, May 11, 2015.

“Riddling Things: Anglo-Saxon Meets Ecocriticism,” Medieval English Research Seminar, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, February 2015.

“Anglo-Saxon Riddles, Talking Animals, and Ecocriticism,” Medieval Reading Group, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, January 2015.

“‘Stige nearwe, enge anpaðas’: Landscape and Ecology in Beowulf.” Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Columbia University, October 2007.

“Eco-Criticism and Anglo-Saxon Landscape.” Graduate Seminar Lecture Series, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, May 2007.

Forthcoming

Gender, Disability and Jews in Old English Poetry: Intersections. Amsterdam University Press.

Medieval Ecocriticisms: Animals, Landscapes, Objects, and the Nature of the Human. Ed. Heide Estes. Amsterdam University Press.

“Medieval Weathers.” Medieval Ecocriticisms, vol. 1, no. 1, Amsterdam University Press, Spring 2020.

Medieval Ecocriticisms, Editor-in-Chief Heide Estes. Vol 2, no. 2, Amsterdam University Press, Fall 2020.

Additional Information

SERVICE:
Co-Chair, Writing Committee
Chair, University Qualification Committee

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