Shannon Beddingfield:

PhD Candidate, English | Yale Universtiy 

Hello. Vale! Χαῖρε! Wæs þu hal! Sæl! सुप्रभातम् ! I’m a Graduate Coach with InGenius Prep, working in New Haven. As a PhD candidate in the English Department at Yale University, I focus my dissertation on multilingual poetry in the medieval period. My background is Classical and English literature, as well as historical linguistics, and I have a corresponding passion for ancient languages, including Latin, Ancient Greek, Old English, Old Norse, Sanskrit, and Avestan. I have taught a variety of literature and writing courses, both at Yale and Ohio State University. The topic of my courses ranged from Shakespeare, Chaucer, epic, to medieval literature in film, to academic writing on themes such as monsters and apocalypse. These last two (perhaps unusual, but nevertheless provocative) topics have generated some of the most impressive critical thinking, discussion, research, and writing from students, who are, often for the first time, given the opportunity to respond critically and academically to trends and rhetoric in popular culture, new and old.