Bard Swallow

Bard Swallow (they//them) is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Medieval Studies. They earned a BA in Computer Science from Carleton College (2018) and an MA in Medieval Literatures and Languages from the University of York (2019). They work on post-Conquest Anglo-Latin literature, especially poetry, and their dissertation considers the writing of Anglo-Latin poetry in the multilingual literary environment of fourteenth-century England. An inveterate punster from childhood, Bard is always excited to encounter wordplay, onomastic or otherwise, in their reading.

Publications

"Common Authorship and the “Anonymous of Calais”: Reassessing an Anglo-Latin Political Poem from the Fourteenth Century", Journal of Medieval Latin 33 (2023), 89-118.  

“High Fantasy RPGs and the Materiality of the Medieval Book", Games and Culture (in press, published online November 19, 2023) 

Presentations

"Structural Use of Rhyme in the Viciorum Pestilencia." V International John Gower Society Congress, University of St. Andrews, July 7-10, 2023.

“‘a seipso effeminatur, sed infeminatur’: Gender Difference in Walter Map’s Tale of Rollo and His Wife.” 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 11-13, 2023.

“Scansion and Syntax in ‘Against the King’s Taxes’: vernacular adaptation to the Goliardic line.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, March 24-25, 2023.