"Cædmon's "Hymn" and Material Culture in the World of Bede, an essay collection co-edited with John hines, appeared in December 2007.

"The Handsome Sailor and the Man of Sorrows: Billy Budd and the Modernism of Benjamin Britten" appeared in Modernist Cultures 3.2 (2007): 57-70. Other recent essays include "'Hrothgar Built Roads': Grendel's Ride in LA," a review of the Los Angeles Opera's production of Grendel, published in the Old English Newsletter 39 (2006), 27-35; and "Drama and Dialogue in Old English Poetry: The Scene of Cynewulf's Juliana," Theater Survey 48 (2007): 99-119.

At Anglo-Saxon.net you can see a trial database connecting archaeological and textual evidence concerning food and food production in Anglo-Saxon England.

Recent projects:
A Son at the Front, a play by Allen J. Frantzen with music by John Frantzen, was given a reading at the Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles on March 31, 2007, directed by Ryan J. Hill of the Theatre Department, Loyola Marymount University. The play was given two readings in 2006, including a staged reading in the Platform Reading Series sponsored by Loyola University's Theatre Department in September.

"Circles of Grief," a song cycle based on letters from World War I, with music by Pierre Thilloy. The premiere was given in France on November 11, 2005.

Bloody Good, a study of chivalry, sacrifice, and heroic masculinity that links the Middle Ages to World War I (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004).

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