Anine Englund

Anine Olsen Englund is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford. She earned both her M.A. Hons in English and an M.Litt. in Medieval Studies (with Distinction) from the University of St Andrews. Her masters’ dissertation focused on the adaptation of medieval and medievalist source material in Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin.

 Anine is currently working on her doctoral thesis in Old English poetry, for which she considers the complex and intriguing relationship between soul, body and Judgement Day, with a particular focus on the two extant versions of the Soul and Body poem and its patristic sources. Her general research interests also cover Old Norse myths and heroic literature, the Kalevala, wider medieval literature, and J. R. R. Tolkien..

 For more information, see https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/anine-olsen-englund.