This month we sit down with Dr. Anne Elise Crafton, recent alum of the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute and current postdoctoral fellow. We chat about their recent dissertation, "You Sound Like a Wif: The Representation of Women's Speech in Old English," Tolkien's legacy of creating medievalists, and the difficulties of finding and categorizing every single example of women's speech in all Old English texts.

Find out more about Dr. Crafton on their personal website:

https://www.annecrafton.com/