The ''Old English Newsletter'' is a

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established in 1967. It covers

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studies and is published by the

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for the Old English Division of the

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. The journal publishes an annual ''Bibliography'' and ''Year's Work'', which are widely relied upon. Many issues include

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of relevant scholars. The online version contains an archive of several years of the journal's publications.

History

When first established, the ''Old English Newsletter'' was published at Binghamton, New York, by the

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's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In 1975, publication had transferred to the

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and in 2011 to the Department of English at the

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. The journal is now published by the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, still on behalf of the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America.

Past editors

*1967: Jess B. Bessinger,

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, and Fred C. Robinson, Cornell (jointly)''Old English Newsletter'', vol. 1, no. 1 (April 1967), p. 1 *1975: Stanley J. Kahrl *1977: Paul E. Szarmach *2011:

Roy Liuzza Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the ''Old English Newsletter''. He has published a translation of ''Beowulf'' which was well-receive ...

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/index.php
Archives
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History

Past editors

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