Twenty-five Years of “Anglo-Saxon Studies”: Looking Back, Looking Forward

It’s October, 2019, and I’m looking at the edited copy of the essay you’re about to read: a multi-authored piece which captures a discussion about one field within Medieval Studies, conducted at a specific moment in time. The date of that discussion — at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July, 2018 — suddenly feels a long time ago. A great deal has happened in the field of early medieval English studies since then, and most visibly over the summer of 2019. Scholars including Adam Miyashiro, one of this essay’s authors, as well as, perhaps most prominently, Mary Rambaran-Olm, have called