Department of English, University of Minnesota
Jennifer Young is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature. She received her undergraduate degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the Ohio State University, and her M.A. from the University of Minnesota's Program in Germanic Philology. She worked for several years as a graduate assistant at the U of M Women's Center, and has been an instructor or teaching assistant for several courses on British literature and narrative. In 2003, Jennifer Young received the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, and award based on student nominations. Last year she was awarded the Drake Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation examines the ways in which historiographers in Anglo-Saxon England responded to difficulties in knowing and interpreting past events.
"Knowledge and Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Historiography" (Ph. D. dissertation, in progress)
“Visual Imagery in the Dream of the Rood” at Text and Image in Medieval England: A Conference in Honor of Calvin B. Kendall at the University of Minnesota (October 2003)
"Our Hang-Out: The Minnesota Women's Center and Women's Higher Education" co-written and delivered by D. Opitz, J. Young, J. al'Azar, and K. Norasing at the National Teleconference on Women in Higher Education in Minneapolis, MN (March 2000)
“Tapestry and Saga: Weaving as a Metaphor for Authorship in Njal’s Saga and Volsunga Saga” delivered at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (May 1999)