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| Alfred K. Siewers teaches medieval literature, fantasy literature, and ecological criticism, and is environmental humanities coordinator for the Bucknell Environmental Center. A former staff writer with the Chicago Sun-Times and The Christian Science Monitor, he also helps to supervise/advise media internships for English majors. |
Teaching Interests |
| Medieval Literature, Celtic Literature, Comparative Humanities, Environmental Humanities |
Current Projects and Research Interests |
| His field of research is primarily in early British “archipelagic studies” --studying the intertwined cultures, identities, and languages of early Wales, Ireland, Scandinavia, and the Anglo Saxon realms. He is co-editor of the collection Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages and of articles in Celtic and medieval journals and book collections. His newest forthcoming articles include two on the philosophy of John Scottus Eriguena in relation to the early Irish Otherworld, to appear in collections on early Irish studies. In addition, he is working on a book about ecocritical approaches to early literatures, and is editing a collection on postmodern approaches to premodern views of nature. |
Selected Publications |
"Landscapes of Conversion: Guthlac's Mound and Grendel's Mere as Expressions of Anglo-Saxon Nation-Building," reprinted inThe Postmodern Beowulf , ed. Joy and Ramsey, 2006. On landscape and empire. (Originally in Viator34 (2003):1-39.) Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages, New Middle Ages series, 2005, which I edited with Jane Chance; also includes my "Tolkien's Cosmic-Christian Ecology" article on fantasy and landscape. "Writing an Icon of the Land: The Mabinogi as a Mystagogy of Landscape." Peritia 19 (2005): 193-228 (Irish Medieval Academy). Iconography and layered textual landscape. "The bluest-greyest-greenest eye: colours of martyrdom and colours of the winds as iconographic landscape." Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies50 (2005): 31-66. Landscape as a praxis of aescetic-aesthetics. "Gildas and Glastonbury," in Via Crucis, Essays on Sources and Ideas in Memory of J.E. Cross, ed. Hall (2002). Landscape as mythic history. |
Recent Awards |
| Bucknell's Presidential Award for Teachng Excellence, 2007 |
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