№ 1: The existential dragon: Adapting Beowulf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and John Gardner’s GrendelAndrew Phillip de Carion, University of Houston–Downtown
№ 2: Beowulf’s “sword”: The sacrifice of manhood in the fight with Grendel’s motherErin Cadenhead, independent scholar
№ 3: The medievalism of cultural trauma in Maria Dahvana Headley’s The Mere WifeSchuyler Eastin, Adjunct Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University