Leonard Neidorf

LEONARD NEIDORF received his PhD from Harvard University. He has been Professor of English at Nanjing University since 2016. He is the author of two monographs on Beowulf: The Transmission of Beowulf (2017) and The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (2022), both of which were published by Cornell University Press. He is the editor of The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (2014), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE, and the co-editor (with Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey)...See more

LEONARD NEIDORF received his PhD from Harvard University. He has been Professor of English at Nanjing University since 2016. He is the author of two monographs on Beowulf: The Transmission of Beowulf (2017) and The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (2022), both of which were published by Cornell University Press. He is the editor of The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (2014), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE, and the co-editor (with Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey) of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (2016). Neidorf has published more than 90 papers, which have appeared in a wide range of prominent journals, including ELH, Folklore, Traditio, Nature Human Behaviour, and Journal of Germanic Linguistics. For his research on Beowulf, Neidorf was awarded the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association in 2020. See less