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Leonard Neidorf
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
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Academic work
DisciplinePhilology
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Main interestsOld English and Middle English literature
Notable worksThe Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (2017)

Leonard Neidorf (born c. 1988) is an American philologist who is Professor of English at Nanjing University. Neidorf specializes in the study of Old English and Middle English literature, and is a known authority on Beowulf.[1]

Biography

Raised in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, Neidorf graduated from Eastern Regional High School in 2006.[2] He gained a BA, summa cum laude, in English from New York University in 2010, and a PhD in English from Harvard University in 2014.[3] Upon gaining his PhD, Neidorf became a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows (2014-2016). Admittance to the Harvard Society of Fellows is considered one of the greatest academic achievements possible in the United States.[2] Since 2016, Neidorf has been Professor of English at Nanjing University.[1]

Research

Leonard Neidorf specializes in the study of Old English and Middle English literature. He is known as an authority on Beowulf. Neidorf is the editor of The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (2014), which was awarded the Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2015, and co-editor (with Tom Shippey and Rafael J. Pascual) of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (2016). Neidorf is the author of The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (2017).[1] Neidorf maintains that Beowulf was probably composed by a single author in the late 7th or early 8th century AD.[4][5][6][7] For his research on Beowulf, Neidorf was awarded the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association in 2020.[8] In addition to Beowulf, Neidorf has published extensively on other major Old English poems, including Widsith,[9][10] Maxims,[11][12] the Finnesburg Fragment,[13][14] and the Dream of the Rood.[15][16][17] His research addresses questions of authorship, interpretation, literary history, and textual criticism.

Neidorf believes that philology should play a more important role in modern social sciences, and he defends the application of probabilism and empirical methods in humanistic research.[4] In addition to his traditional philological research, Neidorf has published several large-scale quantitive studies of the corpus of Old English poetry.[18][19][20]

Selected works

  • The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, 2014[21]
  • Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk, 2016[21]
  • The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior, 2017[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Leonard Neidorf". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Krum, Logan (June 28, 2017). "From Eastern to Harvard to China". Sun Newspapers. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Prof. Leonard Neidorf" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Neidorf, Leonard (2015). "On Beowulf and Biology: Empirical Methodology in Humanistic Research". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
  5. ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/anglo-saxon-england/article/scribal-errors-of-proper-names-in-the-beowulf-manuscript/56ED4886B0E4437A291B48E8D9C69468
  6. ^ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11061-014-9400-x
  7. ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-germanic-linguistics/article/old-norse-influence-on-the-language-of-beowulf-a-reassessment/0BFC4F2008DB4F3A85089CC573B3E283
  8. ^ https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/english-association/news-1/2020-beatrice-white-prize-winner-announced
  9. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (January 2013). "The Dating of Widsið and the Study of Germanic Antiquity". Neophilologus. 97 (1): 165–183. doi:10.1007/s11061-012-9308-2. S2CID 163940868.
  10. ^ https://aevum.space/people/leonard-neidorf
  11. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (2 September 2019). "Maxims II , Line 10: Truth and Textual Criticism". Studia Neophilologica. 91 (3): 241–248. doi:10.1080/00393274.2019.1605495. S2CID 211645757.
  12. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (2016). "On the Dating and Authorship of Maxims I". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 117 (1): 137–154. JSTOR 26386191.
  13. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (1 December 2019). "Garulf and Guthlaf in the Finnsburg Fragment". Notes and Queries. 66 (4): 489–492. doi:10.1093/notesj/gjz114.
  14. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (2 January 2020). "The Finnsburg Fragment, Line 14: Language and Legend". The Explicator. 78 (1): 44–48. doi:10.1080/00144940.2020.1725408. S2CID 213494609.
  15. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (2016). "The composite authorship of The Dream of the Rood". Anglo-Saxon England. 45: 51–70. doi:10.1017/S0263675100080224.
  16. ^ Neidorf, Leonard (17 June 2020). "Verbs and Versification in The Dream of the Rood". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: 1–4. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2020.1782723.
  17. ^ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1820711
  18. ^ Neidorf, Leonard; Krieger, Madison S.; Yakubek, Michelle; Chaudhuri, Pramit; Dexter, Joseph P. (June 2019). "Large-scale quantitative profiling of the Old English verse tradition". Nature Human Behaviour. 3 (6): 560–567. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0570-1. PMID 30962615. S2CID 102354307.
  19. ^ Neidorf, Leonard; Zhao, Yi; Yu, Jie (October 2019). "Line Length in Old English Poetry: A Chronological and Stylistic Criterion". Neophilologus. 103 (4): 561–575. doi:10.1007/s11061-019-09596-8. S2CID 166184147.
  20. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/08/beowulf-old-english-poem-work-one-author-research-suggests
  21. ^ a b c "Publications". Harvard University. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
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