Claire Davis

Claire Davis

First Name: 
Claire
Last Name: 
Davis
Title: 
PhD Student ( she / her )
Education: 
MA, English Literature, University of Arizona

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Old English poetry
  • material culture
  • book history
  • poetry as craft
  • weaving as metaphor and construction 

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Cohort:

1st Major: 
Languages and Literatures
1st Minor: 
Manuscript Studies and Textual Cultures
Presentations: 
"The Fleohnet in the Old English Poem Judith," International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages, July 2025
"It's Curtains for Holofernes: Symbols of Leadership in the Old English Judith," International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, July 2025
“Speeches, Speaking Tapestries: Interplay of Weaving and Speech in Beowulf,” Islands of the North Atlantic conference, June 2024
"Beowulf the Shaper: Creation, Heroics, and Monstrosity," International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2024
“Weaving an Empire: The Lady of Shalott, Elaine of Astolat, and the Victorian Artist,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2023
“Grendel's Glof and Monstrous Creation in Beowulf,” Southeastern Medieval Association, November 2022
“Sounding the Barbaric Warp: Weaving Motifs and Gendered Power in Beowulf,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2022
“Sounding the Barbaric Warp: Weaving as Power Motif Across Classical, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse Myth," University of Florida Classics Graduate Symposium, February 2021
Administrative Service: 
Student Executive Committee Chair, 2024-2025
Student Executive Committee Treasurer, 2023-2024