讲 座 人：Professor Leonard Neidorf

主 持 人：程文 副教授

讲座时间：2026年7月2日（周四）下午15:00-16:30

讲座地点：李达三外语楼210会议室

内容提要：

In this lecture, Professor Leonard Neidorf presents an overview of his research on Beowulf, the most widely studied work of English literature from the early medieval period. Beowulf is now regarded as the first great work of English literature, but it was unknown to the modern world until 1815, and its fortunes with the reading public and the academic community have varied since then. The story of how Beowulf came to occupy the canonical position it now possesses in both popular and academic culture provides a backdrop here for Professor Neidorf’s studies on the origins and interpretation of Beowulf. Neidorf explains how he and other scholars combine methods from disciplines such as philology, comparative literature, and digital humanities to shed new light on this marvelous and mysterious poem.

讲座人简介：

Leonard Neidorf is Distinguished Professor of English at Shenzhen University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from New York University. He is the author of two monographs—The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (Cornell University Press, 2022) and The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (Cornell University Press, 2017)—as well as the editor of four books. In 2020, Neidorf was awarded the Beatrice White Prize by the English Association for his research on medieval literature. Neidorf has published more than 100 papers in A&HCI journals. His work has appeared in a wide range of journals including ELH, Folklore, Neophilologus, Review of English Studies, Tolkien Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, and Nature Human Behaviour. Neidorf is an Associate Editor of English Studies (Taylor & Francis) and the Editor-in-Chief of The Explicator (Taylor & Francis).

伦纳德·尼多夫（Leonard Neidorf），深圳大学英语系杰出教授。毕业于哈佛大学，获哲学博士学位；出版专著2部，分别为《贝奥武夫诗人艺术与思想》（康奈尔大学出版社，2022年）及《贝奥武夫的传承：语言、文化与抄写行为》（康奈尔大学出版社，2017年）。尼多夫因对中世纪文学的研究荣获英国文学协会颁发的比阿特丽斯·怀特奖；在A& HCI 期刊上发表学术论文100余篇，其研究成果发表于《 ELH 》《民俗学》《新语言学家》《英语研究评论》《托尔金研究》《日耳曼语言学杂志》及《自然·人类行为》等众多学术期刊。现任《英语研究》（Taylor & Francis出版）副主编及《阐释者》（Taylor & Francis出版）主编。