Wendy Hennequin | Faculty | Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy

Office Address: 310-C Elliot
Phone: 963-5724
Email: whennequin@tnstate.edu

PhD, University of Connecticut
MA, Central Connecticut State University
BS-ED, Central Connecticut State University

• “Waltheof: the Journey from Warrior to Saint,”  Scandia  vol. 88, no. 2 (2022). With Elizabeth Dachowski. (link to abstract here:  https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/article/view/24802 )
• Blog: “Countess Judith of Huntington, Earl Waltheof, and Lived Religion,” (https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/announcement/view/180).
• “Anglo-Saxon Banners and Beowulf,” published in Medieval Clothing and Textiles Volume 16. (2020). https://boydellandbrewer.com/medieval-clothing-and-textiles-16.html
• Dr. Hennequin was a panelist on Summer Shakespeare Online by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival: https://youtu.be/pnjTPWwiITc (2020).
• “Hunferth and Incitement” (tentatitve title), accepted for an anthology on the Irish Sea Cultural Province, ed. Joseph Nagy.
• “How Not to Be a Lonely Medievalist,” accepted, The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist, ed. John Sexton and Kisha Tracy.
• “A Better Band of Hall Thanes: Harry Potter and the Comitatus Bond,” accepted, J.K. Rowling’s Medievalisms, ed. Carol Dover (under consideration by Palgrave / MacMillan).
• “The Confining Crown of Champions: Women’s Aggressive Speech and Containment in Seinte Katerine and The Wife of Bath,” accepted by Female Aggression and Women Warriors in the Middle Ages, Ed. Tracey-Anne Cooper and Christina Senechal, to be published in Spring 2016.
• “Her Own Hall: Grendel’s Mother as King,” accepted by Heroic Age, to be published Spring 2016.
• “Teaching the Past Present: Re-Creation and Reproduction in the University Classroom,” accepted by Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. 
  
• “Beowulf in World Lit 1,” http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/issue/hennequin.php
• “Riddle 17,” translation and commentary, http://theriddleages.wordpress.com/tag/wendy-hennequin/
• Select Poems.   New Crops from Old Fields: Eight Medievalists Poets, ed. Oz Hardwick, York, England: Stairwell Books, 2015. 56-69.
• “Harry Potter and the Legends of Saints.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25:1 (2013): 67-81.
• “We’ve Created a Monster: The Strange Case of Grendel’s Mother.” English Studies 89:5 (2008): 503-23.

• “Why Are Women’s Voices Muted in Beowulf ?” presented at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 4, 2023.
• Nashville Shakespeare Festival (speaker), 2022 and 2023 (both Summer and Winter productions both years).
• “Reacting to the Past Consortium Workgroup on Primary Texts,” Workgroup participant, Reacting to the Past Annual Institute, June 2023.
• “Bringing the Sutton Hoo Inquest to Life in the Classroom,” with Elizabeth Dachowski. Southeast Medieval Association Conference, Birmingham, AL (November 12, 2022).
• “The Origins of the Authenticity Police” (roundtable presentation), PCAS/ACAS, Nashville, TN, October 13, 2016.
• “Graphic Novel Adaptations of Medieval Texts” (roundtable presentation), Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Knoxville, TN, October 8, 2016.
• “Unferth and the Celtic Taunting Tradition,” 15^th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, July 13, 2015.
•   “The Last Peace Weaver? Countess Judith, Earl Waltheof, and Anglo-Norman Rapprochement.” co-presented with Elizabeth Dachowski from History Dept,  Southeast Medieval Association Conference, Little Rock, AR, entitled
• “Teaching the Past Present: Re-Creation and Reproduction in the University Classroom,” 1^st Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2013.
• “Innovation in the Face of Adversity: Using Technology at an HBCU for Collaboration and a Personal Touch,” ROCC Summer Academy, Memphis, Tennessee, June, 2012.
• “A Medievalist Teaches Writing,” NCTE, Chicago, Illinois, November, 2011.
• “‘Who Received that Freight’: Beowulf Rediscovered in the Modern World,” South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2011.
• “Justice and Gender in Yde and Olive,”46^th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, May, 2011.
• “Harry Potter and the Legends of Saints,” South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 2010.
• “Simpleness and Duty: ‘Pyramus and Thisby,’ Devotion, and the Corpus Christi Plays,” Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, D.C., April 2009.
• “Her Own Hall: Grendel’s Mother as King.” 43^rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008.
• “Armed and Disarmed: Hippolyta as Amazon Queen and Perfect Wife in Chaucer and de Pizan.” 42^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007.

NEH Seminar: “The Irish Sea Cultural Province: Crossroads of Medieval Languages and Literature,” Belfast, Northern Ireland; Douglas, Isle of Man; and Glasgow, Scotland. Summer 2015.

• Creative Conference Paper, “No Feldsong for Old Men: Does ‘Deor’s Flyting’ Flyt Tradition, or by Opposing, Sustain It?” Pseudo Society (mock scholarship panel), 48^th International Medieval Congress, May 11, 2012.
• Invited Lecture, “God for Harry, England, and St. George: How J.K. Rowling Uses Medieval Saints’ Lives in the Harry Potter Series.” Medieval Studies Forum, Southern Indiana University, March 7, 2013.
• Research Presentation, “ Harry Potter and Medieval Saints’ Lives,” Medieval and Classical Faculty Research Forum, Vanderbilt University, November 11, 2010.
• Research Presentation, “Anglo-Saxon Kingship, Beowulf, and Grendel’s Mother,” Medieval and Classical Faculty Research Forum, Vanderbilt University, April 21, 2008.

General Education Assessment committee

• Literature of Medieval England
• Chaucer
• History of the English Language
• Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• Special Topics (Harry Potter)
• English Novel
• English Literature 1
• World Literature 1
• World Literature 2
• Poetry and Drama
• Freshman English 1
• Freshman English 2