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Lilla Kopár

PhD, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

Research interests: Viking-age stone sculpture in the British Isles; iconography of Norse mythology and heroic legend; acculturation and conversion of the Vikings in England.

  • kopar (a) cua.edu

 

Nancy L. Wicker

PhD, Professor of Art History, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA

Research interests: Interdisciplinary Scandinavian art and archaeology, especially the relationship of ornamental animal styles to pictorial art of the Migration Period through the Viking Age; runic inscriptions, with particular interest in runic literacy and the audiences for runic inscriptions; and the roles of women as artists, patrons, and subjects of art.

  • nwicker (a) olemiss.edu