Research Bio
Professor Heslop’s research centres on Old Norse textual culture, especially skaldic and eddic poetry, the sagas and the heroic tradition. She approaches this material from a medial perspective, and asks what ‘media theory’ we can detect– in an epoch before the mass media—in Old Norse texts and images. Relevant here is not only the media transition associated with the arrival of manuscript textuality, but also multi- and intermedial phenomena in images, inscriptions, and texts. A complementary area of current research interest, medieval Scandinavian representations and practices of commemoration and mourning, offers a site to think about religious mediation, the in-between space between the living and the dead, and the link between medium, memory and forgetting.
See her CV.
Research Expertise and Interest
medieval studies, old norse literature, viking and medieval scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory
Teaching
Early Scandinavian Literature [SCANDIN 220 - 001]
Graduate Studies [SCANDIN 249 - 001]
Special Study [SCANDIN 298 - 001]
Dissertation Writing [SCANDIN 299 - 001]
Individual Study for M.A. Candidates [SCANDIN 601 - 001]
Individual Study for Doctoral Candidates [SCANDIN 602 - 001]
Dissertation Writing [SCANDIN 299 - 001]
Heroic Legends of the North [SCANDIN 60 - 001]
Individual Study for M.A. Candidates [SCANDIN 601 - 001]
Individual Study for Doctoral Candidates [SCANDIN 602 - 001]
Early Scandinavian Literature [SCANDIN 220 - 001]
Graduate Studies [SCANDIN 249 - 001]
Special Study [SCANDIN 298 - 001]
Dissertation Writing [SCANDIN 299 - 001]
Individual Study for M.A. Candidates [SCANDIN 601 - 001]
Individual Study for Doctoral Candidates [SCANDIN 602 - 001]