Matthew Coker, visiting assistant professor, is teaching a course on Old Norse II, while William Quinn, Distinguished Professor, is teaching a course on the Middle English Lyric.

The score for The Green Knight has been shortlisted in the Best Score category for this year’s Oscar race. What were your initial thoughts on what the score should be? We had an initial conversation ...

The Middle English poem Erkenwald, believed to be contemporaneous with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (and possibly by the same author, with connections noted to Hawkstone), survives in a single ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Under the bright lights of the auditorium of John Muir Middle School, dozens of students are on stage rehearsing for a big poetry performance. Standing in a row with her classmates, Jwail Alnamh, a ...

A rare excitement ran through the The New Yorker’s copy department last week when it was discovered that a line of Middle English poetry quoted in a piece by Peter Hessler about standing in police ...

I went to college a little bit later than most. Excited but nervous to plunge into a degree — in English literature — that demands all students learn Old English, I asked a friend what studying the ...

Coming from a choral background, composer Daniel Hart was well prepared to score The Green Knight, but the real challenge was creating an ancient sound. With a basis in ancient England during the time ...