2024-
2020-2024
2018-2020
John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of York, York, England, UK.
Instructor of Record, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Education
2024
2018
2017
2017
PhD in Medieval Studies, University of York, York, England, UK.
MA in Medieval Studies, University of York, York, England, UK.
BFA in Arts & Technology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
BA in Medieval Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Publications
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Price, B.A. and Thomas Morcom, eds. After the Commonwealth: Texts, Politics, and Identities in Medieval Iceland (1264-1500) (Turnhout: Brepols, Expected 2026).
Price, B. A., et al., eds. Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements in the Middle Ages (Cham: Palgrave, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5 -
Price, B. A., “Against Evidence,” Medieval Feminist Forum. (Expected 2026)
Price, B. A. and Brittany Orton, “Introduction: Silence and Silencing in the Middle Ages,” Medieval Feminist Forum. (Expected 2026)
Price, B. A., “Bad Trans*Feelings in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss,” Medieval Feminist Forum. (Expected 2025). Winner of the 2024 Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Essay Prize, Winner of the 2024 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Graduate Student Essay Award.
Price, B. A., “Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf.” English Studies. (Expected 2024).
Price, B. A., . “Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans Ecology in Jökuls þáttr Búasonar.” Medieval Ecocriticisms 4 (2024): 93–115. doi.org/10.32773/MQGX1984.
Price, B.A., "Queer Indigenous Relationality in Finnboga saga ramma," Speculum 99:2 (2024): 381-408. https://doi.org/10.1086/729093
Price, B. A. “Potentiality and Possibility: An Overview of Beowulf and Queer Theory” Neophilologus 104 (2020): 401–419.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-020-09636-8
Price, B. A. “Búi and the Blámaðr: Comprehending Racial Others in Kjalnesinga saga.” postmedieval 11:4 (2020): 442–450 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-020-00195-4 -
Price, B.A. and Tess Wingard, “Law and Social Control” in A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450), eds. James Sargan and Micah Goodrich (London: Bloomsbury, Expected 2027).
Price, B.A., “Political Pasts and Futures in the Landscapes of Njáls saga and Grettis Saga” in After the Commonwealth: Texts, Politics, and Identities in Medieval Iceland (1264-1500) eds. Price, B.A. and Thomas Morcom (Turnhout: Brepols, Expected 2026).
Price, B. A. and Thomas Morcom, “Introduction,” in After the Commonwealth: Texts, Politics, and Identities in Medieval Iceland (1264-1500) eds. Price, B.A. and Thomas Morcom (Turnhout: Brepols, Expected 2026).
Price, B. A., “I Don’t Want Realism - I Want Magic!: Magic and Queerness in Later Íslendingasögur,” Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North. edited by Jennifer Hemphill, et al., (Cham: Palgrave, Expected 2024). Price, B. A., “Suicide as Speech: The Antisocial Feminism of Svarfdæla saga," Reconsidering Consent and Coercion in Medieval Literature. edited by Hannah Piercy and Jane Bonsall, (Turnout: Brepols, Expected 2024).
Price, B. A., “Greenland as a Horizon: Queer Utopia in Flóamanna saga.” Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements. edited by B. A. Price et al. (Cham: Palgrave, 2023), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5_12
Price, B. A et al., “Introduction” Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements edited by B. A. Price et al. (Cham: Palgrave, 2023), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5_1 -
Price, B. A., “Merkelbach, Rebecca and Gwendolyne Knight, eds. Margins, Monsters, and Deviants: Alterities in Old Norse Literature and Culture (Brepols, 2020),” Apardjón 3 (Expected 2024).
Grants
HRC Doctoral Fellow for the Centre for Medieval Studies, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, £600.00, 2023-2024.
Trans* Travel Fund Grant, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, £250.00, 2022.
Postgraduate Researcher Conference Grant, Scottish Society for Northern Studies, £250.00, 2022.
Collaborative Postgraduate Project Grant, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, £250.00, 2021.
Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities, The Wolfson Foundation, £88,500.00, 2020-2023.
CARA Summer Scholarship, Medieval Academy of America, $200.00, 2019.
ACMRS-ICMS Graduate Conference Fellowship, Arizona State University and University of Western Michigan, $500.00, 2019.
Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University, $3000.00, 2018.
Awards
Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Essay Prize, Gender and Medieval Studies (GMS) Working Group, £250.00, 2024.
Graduate Student Essay Award, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, $125.00, 2024.
HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition (Finalist), University of York, £500.00, 2023. Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year (Nominee), University of York, Nonmonetary, 2023.
Student College Leader, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Nonmonetary, 2019.
Olivia Toubkin Prize for Best Essay in the Field of Old Norse Literature, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, £100.00, 2018
Andrew Dale Woods Award for Excellence in Old Norse Scholarship, Department of German and Scandinavian, University of Oregon, $150.00, 2016.
Marion Dean Ross Award in Architectural History, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, $150.00, 2016.
Conference Activities
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“Hnappur á talnabandi: A Colonial History of Iceland (1220-1905),” Viking Studies Research Group, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2024.
“Failure in the Postclassical Sagas”, Research Spotlight, Wolfson Postgraduate Scholars in the Humanities Celebration, Wolfson Foundation, University of Birmingham, 2023.
“Old Norse Queer Ephemera,” LGBTQ+ Historians Panel Discussion, Conference on the Royal Historical Society's Report on LGBTQ+ Histories and Historians, University of York, 2023.
“Authority and its Alternatives: Postcolonial Hybridity and the Postclassical Sagas,” Rethinking Social Boundaries in the ‘Viking Diaspora’ Symposium, University of Montréal, 2022.
Keynote Address, “I Don't Want Realism - I Want Magic: Fantasy as Resistance in Later Medieval Íslendingasögur,” Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North Conference, University of Aberdeen, 2021. -
“Mundanities and Mediocrities,” Norse in the North Postgraduate Conference, Durham University, University of Leeds, and University of York. Sponsored by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2022.
“Self and Selves,” White Rose Medieval Graduate Conference, University of Leeds and University of York, 2021. -
“Bad Feelings Across the Middle Ages I” and “Bad Feelings Across the Middle Ages II”, Sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), Philadelphia, 2024.
“Utopian Dreams, Disappointment, and Destruction,” Consumer Culture Theory Conference, School of Economics and Management, University of Lund, 2023.
“Silence & Silencing I: Silences in the Archive,” “Silence & Silencing II: Silencing and Racialising,” “Silence & Silencing III: Queer Hearing and Listening,” “Silence & Silencing IV: Silenced Women and Feminist Listening,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2023. “Roundtable: Publish or Perish? Building Community Through Publishing,” Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 2022.
“After the Icelandic Commonwealth, I: (Re)Imagining Iceland,” “After the Icelandic Commonwealth, II: Representing Royal Power,” “After the Icelandic Commonwealth, III: Reforming and Using the Law,” and “After the Icelandic Commonwealth, IV: Making Connections, Narrating Identity,”International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2022. -
“An Archive of Feelings: Towards an Old Norse Trans* Studies,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2024.
“Happy Nowhere: Of Giants and Trans Feelings in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss,” Modern Language Association Convention (MLA), Philadelphia, 2024.
“Royal Power and the Politics of Failure in Late Medieval Íslendingasögur”, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, 2024.
“Wild Things: Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans Ecology in Jökuls þáttr Búasonar,” Transgender Embodiment 1400-1700 Conference, University of York, 2023.
“The King and His Skattland: A Postcolonial Approach to Post-Commonwealth Iceland,” Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Tensions, Nordic Colonialism and Indigeneity Conference, University of Greifswald, 2023.
“Becoming Irrecoverable: Misogyny, Violence, and Refusal in Svarfdæla saga,” Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Birkbeck, University of London.
“The Prophecies of Drauma-Finni: Queer Indigenous Relationality in Finnboga saga ramma,”International Saga Conference, University of Helsinki and University of Tallin, 2023.
“I Will Go Nowhere”: No Future in the Political Landscapes of Njáls saga and Grettis saga,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2022.
“Beowulf's Failed Masculinity,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2021. -
“Is There a Doctor on Board?: Crises in Early Research Careers Roundtable,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. Invited contribution, 2024.
“Roundtable: Publish or Perish? Building Community Through Publishing,” Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 2023.
“Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities: Future Directions,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. Invited contribution, 2021.
Public Engagement
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“Cruising the Sagas: Queer Sex and Death in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia,” LGBT+ History Month Lecture, Portal Bookstore, York, 2024.
“Queer Feelings and Feeling Queer and in Old Norse Saga and Society,” LGBT+ History Month Lecture, Portal Bookstore, York, 2023.
History in a Time of Polarization Panel Discussion, Public-Facing Workshop, The Medievalist Toolkit, Columbia University, 2022.
“How to Feel Like a Viking” Workshop, Discovery Zone, York Festival of Ideas, York, 2022. (In Collaboration with JORVIK Viking Museum) -
“Speculum Spotlight: Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages,” The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, https://rss.com/podcasts/mmapodcast/1414117/
"Ludohistory plays God of War: Ragnarök," with Adam Bierstadt, Ludohistory Youtube, https://youtu.be/JNUh5sOdbcM?list=PLvFfHAMv6EH_xl2T4gsQ5G2lICPjjkU_T -
“Finding Transgender Worlds in Late Medieval Iceland”. History Blog (2022). https://historyjournal.org.uk/2022/09/05/finding-transgender-worlds-in-late-medieval-iceland/.
Research Experiences and Training
Associate Researcher, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2024-2027.
Postgraduate Researcher, Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark – University of York, 2020-2023.
Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies (Advanced), Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland, 2023.
Advanced Latin, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2021-2022.
Intermediate Latin, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2020-2021.
Translator, Old Norse Collaborative Translation Project, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2018-2020.
Summer School in Modern Icelandic, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland, 2021. Old English Language and Literature, Department of English, Arizona State University, 2019-2020.
Summer School in Scandinavian Manuscript Studies (Beginner), Den Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2019.
Introduction to Latin Paleography, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), Arizona State University, 2019.
Medieval Manuscript Workshop, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), Arizona State University, 2019.
Conversational German, Languages for All, University of York, 2018.
German for Reading Knowledge, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2018.
Research Assistant, Annotated Bibliography for Old Norse Scholarship (2000-2015), Old Norse Bibliographic Research Project, Department of German and Scandinavian, University of Oregon, 2015.
Languages
Medieval
Latin (Advanced): Old Norse (Advanced): Old English (Advanced): Middle English (Advanced)
Modern
English (Native), French (Reading), Danish (Reading), German (Reading), Icelandic (Reading)
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