Scholarly papers

"Sem ormurinn elskar gullit, draca sceal on hlæwe: Greedy Gnomic Dragons in Old English and Old Norse," 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 2002.
"The Peterborough Chronicle as Literature and as History," SAMLA 2001, Atlanta, Ga., November 10, 2001.
"The Literary and Legal Status of the Heynesbók Dragon: An Old Icelandic Proverb in Context," 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 3, 2001.
"Eschatology and the Medieval Metanarrative in Old English," MLA 2000, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2000.
"The Heynesbók Dragon in Old Icelandic Legal-Historical Context," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 5, 2000.
"Two Neglected Late-Icelandic Analogues of Beowulf ll. 2200ff," 34th Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 6-9, 1999.
"The Preeminence of Sigurd: Old Norse Skaldic and Archeological Evidence," 33rd Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-10, 1998
"'As Rare as they are Dire: Dragons, Tolkien, and Jacob Grimm," 32nd Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-10, 1997
"A Philosophy One Can Live In: Alfred the Great, St. Augustine, and Being in the World," Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture, Seventh Annual Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. April 25-26, 1997
"Response to James Blodgett: Weallan, Wylm, and the Dragon's Venom," 24th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, Tenn., April 4-5, 1997
"Medieval Dragon-lore in Middle-earth," 18th Int'l Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 19-22, 1997
"Beowulf, St. Michael, and the Dragon of the Apocalypse," 21st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Medieval Association, Baylor Univ., Waco, Tx. October 1996
"Problems Assessing the Beowulf Dragon"s Old Norse Analogues," the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univl, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 1996
"Bodleian MS Laud 626 as Evidence of Grammatical Borrowing in Middle English," Germanic Linguistics Second Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., April 1996
"Fantasy and Mimesis in Old Norse Dragonlore," Seventeenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 1996
"Syntactic and Semantic Overlaps in Beowulf,"* Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Los Angeles, California, November 1989
"Peirce, Poinsot, and the Sign-type Triad," Semiotic Society of America 14th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis Indiana, July 1989
"Old Norse Dragon Illuminations: Illusions/Reality," 13th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1988
"Medieval Textuality: Manuscripts and Genealogy," 12th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Pensacola, Florida, October 1987
"Episodic Structures in Medieval Narrative: Synchronicity and Semantic Overcoding," 21st International Congress of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1986
"Intertextual Constraints on Dragon Slayer Texts in Old Norse," 11th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco, California, October 1986
"Intertextuality in Old Icelandic," 12th Annual South Eastern Medieval Association, Athens, Georgia, October 1986
"Episodes in Analysis of Medieval Narrative," 10th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 1985
"The Episodic Character of Medieval Narrative," International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 1985
"Medieval Studies and Semiotics: Perspectives on Research," 9th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1984
"A Semiotic Framework for Analysis of Traditional Lore: The Medieval English Dragon Tradition," International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, June 1983
"Tagmemics as a Semiotic of Literacy," Semiotics and Education Colloquium, Int'l Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, June 1983
"Irony and Ambiguity in the Medieval Dragon Code," 7th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Buffalo, N.Y., October 1982
"The Episode as Narrative Unit," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Department, October 1982
"Approaching the Medieval Dragon," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Dept., October 1980
"Christianity and Beowulf," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Department, October 1979

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