Suzanne Klare is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

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Fields of interest

• Old English 
• Early Medieval history 
• Nineteenth Century Literature 
• Medievalism(s) 

Research

My research concerns appropriations of the Old English poem Beowulf by continental scholars and authors during the Nineteenth Century. Beowulf has historically lent itself well to adaptation, and the push to retell the story began, like its scholarly dissection, in the nineteenth century. German and other continental scholars heavily contributed to Beowulf scholarship in that time period; many of them had the ulterior motive of claiming the poem for their own cultural heritage. These authors' appropriations will be explored in my PhD project "Claiming Beowulf as European Epic: Non-Anglophone Appropriations of an Old English Poem". By analyzing various non-anglophone appropriations of the poem, more will be revealed about the role Beowulf played in the popular consciousness beyond its place of origin.  

My PhD is a sub-project of the ERC-funded 'Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe [EMERGENCE]' project.