{"id":40802234046,"date":"2019-01-22T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802234046"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:36:04","slug":"wealhtheow-by-women-estes-presents-research-at-texas-am-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wealhtheow-by-women-estes-presents-research-at-texas-am-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealhtheow by Women: Estes Presents Research at Texas A&amp;M University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40802234048 alignright\" style=\"object-position: 62.95% 24.66%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-560x590.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-280x295.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-320x337.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-640x675.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-360x379.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/01\/estes-tamu.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Heide Estes, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English, participated in an\u00a0invitational symposium, &#8220;Beowulf&#8217;s Afterlives II,&#8221; presented by the &#8220;Beowulf\u2019s Afterlives&#8221; Three-Year Seminar of the Texas A&amp;M University Glasscock Center for Humanities Research on Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2018.\u00a0\u00a0The symposium was dedicated to exploring adaptations of and references to the Old English epic\u00a0Beowulf\u00a0in modern popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>Estes presented an experimental paper that explored character adaptations of Beowulf&#8217;s Danish queen Wealhtheow by turn of the century women authors writing for children as well as by Maria Dahvana Headley in the recent novel The Mere Wife, Elaine Treharne in &#8220;Beowulf in 100 Tweets,&#8221; as well as by translators including\u00a0Megan Purvis, Ruth P. Lehmann and Elaine Treharne.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium also provided an introduction to an online database in preparation of all movies, music, literature and other cultural productions that reference or represent\u00a0Beowulf in some way.\u00a0 The final event of the Glasscock Center\u2019s \u201cBeowulf\u2019s Afterlives\u201d Three-Year Seminar will be held at Texas A&amp;M University on March 1-2, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heide Estes, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English, participated in an\u00a0invitational symposium, &#8220;Beowulf&#8217;s Afterlives II,&#8221; presented by the &#8220;Beowulf\u2019s Afterlives&#8221; Three-Year Seminar of the Texas A&amp;M University Glasscock Center for Humanities Research on Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2018.\u00a0\u00a0The symposium was dedicated to exploring adaptations of and references to the Old English epic\u00a0Beowulf\u00a0in modern popular culture. 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