Marijane Osborn

Professor Emerita
Marijane Osborn
Occupation(s)Academic, writer, researcher, and early ecocritic, with a specialism in medieval literature and culture
Academic background
Alma materStanford University
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval Studies, Old English literature
InstitutionsUC Davis

Marijane Osborn (born 1934) is an American academic. Her research spans literary disciplines; she is a specialist in Old English and Norse literature and is known as an early pioneer of ecocriticism. Osborn has published on runes, Middle English, Victorian and contemporary poets and writers, and film, and is a translator and fiction writer.[1][2][3][4][5] She is Professor Emerita at UC Davis.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Marijane Osborn Profile, Department of English". UC Davis. 26 February 2015.
  2. ^ Osborn, Marijane (1974). "The Vanishing Seabirds in "The Wanderer"". Folklore. 85 (2): 122–127. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1974.9716543. JSTOR 1260059.
  3. ^ Osborn, Marijane (2003). "Tir as Mars in the Old English Rune Poem". ANQ. 16: 3–13. doi:10.1080/08957690309598179. S2CID 161242275.
  4. ^ Osborn, Marijane; Enfijian, Harry (2009). "The Iconographic Parodies Bracketing Chaucer's Summoner's Tale". In Hollengreen, L H (ed.). Translatio or the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Modes and Messages. Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-51892-3.
  5. ^ Osborn, Marijane (2009). ""Strangely Jumbled": Attitudes Toward the Native Other in Melville's and D. H. Lawrence's Captivity Narratives". Leviathan. 11 (2): 57–70. doi:10.1111/j.1750-1849.2009.01318.x. S2CID 145573200.