Leonard Neidorf is Professor of English at Nanjing University, where he teaches courses on medieval literature and the history of the English language. He is the author of The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (Cornell University Press, 2022) and The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior(Cornell University Press, 2017). He is the editor of The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), and a co-editor (with Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey) of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (Boydell & Brewer, 2016).