Plenary Speakers

Joshua R. Brown

Joshua R. Brown is associate professor of German and linguistics, as well as affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, and historical sociolinguistics. His recent publications include "Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia" with Simon Bronner and a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics on heritage language ego-documents. His forthcoming edited volume "The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities" will appear through Oxford University Press.

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Jackson Crawford

Jackson Crawford is Director of Nordic Studies and Instructor of Nordic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a pioneer in using new technologies to communicate scholarly expertise to the interested public, using his Youtube channel and website to reach hundreds of thousands of people with accurate, up-to-date information about old Germanic languages and the literature and mythology preserved therein. His published translations include The Poetic Edda (2015), The Saga of the Volsungs (2017), and the dual-language edition The Wanderer’s Hávamál (2019).

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