Chris Vinsonhaler

Chris Vinsonhaler, the creator of Beowulf: Monsters and Men, serves as an Assistant Professor in English at the City University of New York (BMCC). She has toured nationally and internationally, bringing her performance of Beowulf to a wide range of audiences--from scholarly venues to schools to community events. Publication of her new translation is forthcoming in 2019.

PH.D. English. University of Iowa, 2013. Dissertation: “The Prophetic Beowulf: Heroic and Hagiographic Hybridity in Beowulf, Andreas, and Juliana.” dir. Jonathan Wilcox.

Florida State University, Humanities Doctoral Program under the direction of David F. Johnson, May 2006.

M.A. English. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1983.

B.A. University of Georgia, 1978.
A.A. Emory University at Oxford, Oxford, Georgia, June 197