Stephen Glosecki
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Stephen O. Glosecki (1950 – 4 April 2007[1]) was a scholar of Old English language and literature. Glosecki was raised in Springfield, Illinois, and educated at Sacred Heart-Griffin High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College, and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Davis.[2] A professor of Old English at University of Alabama at Birmingham, he was the author of books and articles on Old English literature, particularly on shamanism[3] and folklore, and was notable for his contributions to the anthropological study of early Germanic literature.[4] He died of cancer in 2007,[5] aged 55.[2] A collection he edited, Myth in Early Northwest Europe, was published posthumously; his introduction was called "lively and, in places, poetic", and his translations of some of the Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were praised as "fluent, vigorous".[6]
Selected publications
- "Beowulf and the wills: Traces of totemism?" Philological Quarterly Vol. 78, Iss. 1/2, (Winter 1999): 14–47.
- Shamanism and Old English Poetry. New York: Garland, 1989.[7]
- Myth in Early Northwest Europe (editor). Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in association with Brepols, 2007.[4][6]
- "Judith" (trans.). Old English Poetry: An Anthology. Ed. Roy Liuzza. Peterborough: Broadview, 2014.[8]