Christina M. Heckman, PhD
Professor of English, Department of English and World Languages Augusta University
- Augusta GA
Professor Heckman focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, history of English language and Anglo-Saxon and middle English literature.
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Biography
Areas of Expertise
Education
Loyola University Chicago
Ph.D.
English
2002
Loyola University Chicago
M.A.
English
1997
University of Notre Dame
B.A.
Government and International Studies and English
1995
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Articles
Demonic Pedagogy and the Teaching Saint: Voice, Body, and Place in Cynewulf's Juliana
Medieval Feminist ForumChristina Heckman
2019-10-01
In Cynewulf’s Old English poem Juliana, the saint frames her encounters with her adversaries as pedagogical confrontations, refusing the lessons they attempt to “teach” her and ultimately adopting the identity of a teacher herself. These confrontations depend on three key tropes in the poem: Juliana’s voice, as a material manifestation of language deployed by the saint; her body, both as living body and as relic; and place, especially the place of the saint’s martyrdom and/or burial. Viewed through theories of material feminism, these tropes reveal diverse forms of agency in the poem, as both human and non-human agents make bodies and places newly intelligible as dynamic and interlinking phenomena
Things in doubt: Inventio, dialectic, and Jewish secrets in Cynewulf's Elene
Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyChristina M. Heckman
2009
