Asa Simon Mittman (Associate Professor of Art History, California State University, Chico) is author of Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (2006), editor of the Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (2012), and author of many articles on the subject of monstrosity and marginality in the Middle Ages. Current projects include VirtualMappa, and articles on Satan in Junius 11, postcolonial readings of Mandeville, Race in the Middle Ages, and the Franks Casket. Susan M. Kim (Associate Professor of English, Illinois State University, Normal) is the author of a number of articles on the subjects of embodiment, the monstrous, and representation, and with a focus on the texts of the Beowulf manuscript. Works in progress include a textbook on the history of the English language as well as a number of articles of Junius 11, the Franks casket, Alcuins mathematical word problems, and the Old English Saint Christopher.
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