Bragg, Lois. “Impaired and Inspired: The Makings of an Icelandic Poet.” In Madness, Disability, and Social Exclusion: The Archaeology and Anthropology of ‘Difference’. ed. Jane Hubert. One World Archaeology, no. 40. (London: Routledge, 2000). 128-143. Discussion of the role of disability in the character of Thormódr Kólbrúnsskáld, an eleventh-century Icelandic poet who died defending St. Olaf: he stuttered and had a crippled right arm.

Bragg, Lois, and William Sayers. “Proust’s Prescription.” Literature and Medicine 19.2 (2000): 163-81. Analysis of epiphanies in In Search of Lost Time, demonstrating that each turns on an issue of chronic illness.

Bragg, Lois. “Runes and Readers: In and Around ‘The Husband’s Message,’” Studia Neophilolgia (Uppsala) 71 (1999): 34-50. Literacy in Dark-Age England.

Bragg, Lois. “Generational Tensions in Sturlunga Saga,” Arkiv för nordisk filologi (Lund) 116 (1997): 5-34. Father/son relations and male roles in 13th-c. Icelandic narrative.

Bragg, Lois. “Oedipus borealis: The Aberrant Body in Barbarian Europe.” Disability Studies Quarterly 17.1 (1997): 258-62. Discusses the Gospel of Mark.

Bragg, Lois. “From the Mute God to the Lesser God: Disability in Medieval Celtic and Old Norse Literature.” Disability & Society 12.2 (April 1997): 165-77.

Bragg, Lois. “Visual-Kinetic Communication in Europe before 1600: A Survey of Sign Lexicons and Finger Alphabets prior to the Rise of Deaf Education” Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 2 (1997): 1-25. Survey of finger alphabets and sign lexicons in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

Bragg, Lois. “The Chaucer Monogram and the ‘Harleian Portrait’ Tradition,” Word & Image 12 (1996): 127-42. Use of finger alphabets in 15th-c. portraits.

Bragg, Lois. “Disfigurement, Disability, and Dis-integration in Sturlunga Saga,” alvíssmál (Berlin) 4 (1994): 15-32. Disability in 13th-c. Icelandic narrative.

Foley, John Miles, ed. “Deafness and Orality.” Oral Tradition 8 (1993): 413-37. Edited version of an electronic conversation among eight scholars on whether ASL literature is an “oral traditional” literature. My argument in support of this view was the first to appear in print.

Bragg, Lois. “Modes of the Old English Metrical Charms.” The Comparatist 16 (1992): 3-23. Rpt. in New Approaches to Medieval Textuality, ed. Mikle Dave Ledgerwood (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). Relation between magic and figurative language in vernacular spells.

Bragg, Lois. “Old English Dual Pronouns and their Poetic Uses.” Language and Style 22 (1989): 337-49. The only comprehensive study of dual pronouns in OE poetry, this essay discusses a kind of pronoun that does not exist in Modern English and known today mostly from sign languages.

Bragg, Lois. “’Wulf and Eadwacer,’ ‘The Wife’s Lament,’ and Women’s Love Lyrics of the Middle Ages.” Germanische-Romanische Monatsschrift 39 (1989): 257-68. Argues for a connection with continental women’s lyrics and against the received notion that OE women’s poetry is an adaptation of male-speaker conventions.

Bragg, Lois. “Whaleroads and Meadseats: Four Ways of Translating Beowulf.” Humanities Education 3 (1986): 63-77. Translation theory and pedagogical applications.

Bragg, Lois. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Elusion of Clarity.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 86 (1985): 482-88. Analysis of romance hero’s ethics.

Bragg, Lois. “More Word Processing for Anglo-Saxonists.” Old English Newsletter 17.2 (1984): 21-23.

Bragg, Lois. “Color Words in Beowulf.” Proceedings of the Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Conference 7 (1982): 47-55. Examines adjectives denoting color in a culture that had a different color schema that that of modern Westerners.

Bragg, Lois. “John Erskine.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 9, ed. James J. Martine (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981).

Bragg, Lois. “Dorothy Canfield Fisher.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 9, ed. James J. Martine (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981).

Bragg, Lois. “Ernest Poole.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 9, ed. James J. Martine (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981).

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Sayers, Edna Edith. "Narrative Eugenics: Disability in Norse Myth and Saga and its Displacement in Art, Literature, and Cinema." Keynote address, 25th Annual International Conference on Medievalism, Kent State University at Stark, 18-20 October 2012.

Bragg, Lois. “Deaf Identity, ASL, and Rallying against Audism.” CCCC 2007

Bragg, Lois. "The Legendary Offa in Denmark and England: The King's Mute Boyhood." South Atlantic MLA, Roanoke, 2004.

Bragg, Lois. "Louisa Bunker Haynes and Segregation at the North Carolina School for the Deaf." Fifth International Deaf History conference, Paris, 2 July 2003.

Bragg, Lois. “Deaf World, Deaf History.” Lecture at DC Public Library, 21 August 2002, and Arlington Public Library 31 March 03.

Bragg, Lois. “Deaf Studies: A Model for Disability Studies?” Keynote address, Society for Disability Studies (SDS), Washington, DC, 1999.

Bragg, Lois. “Deft Mutes and Daft Brutes: Old Icelandic Tales of Dysglossia,” MLA 1998.

Bragg, Lois. “Muteness and the Supernatural in Early Iceland,” invited lecture at University of Iceland, 24 March 1998.

Bragg, Lois. “Medieval Signing: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy,” invited lecture for the American Sign Language Program, University of Rochester (New York), 5 December 1997.

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Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of People of the Eye: Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry, Ardis Butterfield (Oxford UP, 2011): Deaf History International Newsletter 46 (Fall 2011): 14-15.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War, Ardis Butterfield (Oxford UP, 2009). Mediaevistik 24 (2011): 853-55.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of Say What I Am Called: The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book and the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition, Dieter Bitterli (U Toronto P, 2009). Mediaevistik 24 (2011): 486-89.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of Women and Disability in Medieval Literature, Tory Vandeventer Pearman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 15.3 (2011): 325-27.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of “Vignettes of the Deaf Character” and Other Plays, Willy Conley (Washington: Gallaudet UP, 2009. Clerc Scar 15.4 (13 October 2009).

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Christopher Krentz (Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 2007). Deaf History International Newsletter 39 (Summer 2009): 10.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence, Marilynn Desmond (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006). The Medieval Review, 2007.

Sayers, Edna Edith. Rvw. of The Avenue: A History of the Claremont Institution, Rachel Pollard (Dun Laoghaire, Ireland: Denzille Press, 2006. Deaf History International Newsletter, Summer 2007: 10.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Harlan Lane (Boston: Beacon, 2004) and of “A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster,” Fenimore Art Museum 1 April – 31 December 2005. Deaf History Newsletter 24 (2005): 3-5.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of George Dalgarno on Universal Language, David Cram and Jaap Matt (Oxford UP, 2001). Deaf History International Newsletter, Spring 2003: 17-20.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Brenda Deen Schildgen (Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001). Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 426-29.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue (Chaucer Studies XXVI), Laura F. Hodges. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 408-11.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Helen Keller, Public Speaker: Sightless but Seen, Deaf but Heard (Great American Orator Series, No. 23), Lois J. Einhorn (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1998). Disability Studies Quarterly 20.5 (2001 for 2000): 358-59.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of An Intellectual Look at American Sign Language, Tom Bertling (Wilsonville, Oregon: Kodiak Media Group, 2001). Disability Studies Quarterly 20.4 (2001 for 2000): 450-51.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Assembling the Lyric Self: Authorship from Troubadour Song to Italian Poetry Book, Olivia Holmes (Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 2000). Annali d’Italianistica 18 (2000): 477-80.

[Bragg, Lois.] Rvw. of "Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe." Folger Library, 13 December 2000 - 4 March 2001. Deaf History International Newsletter, Fall 2000: 10-11.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology, Diane Brentari (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 1999). Disability Studies Quarterly 20.1 (2000): 61.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability, David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, eds. (Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1997). Disability Studies Quarterly 18.3 (March 1999 for Summer 1998): 258-62.

Bragg, Lois. “Planet of the Normates,” review essay on Extraordinary Bodies, Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: Columbia UP, 1997), Freakery, ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: NYUP, 1996), and Monster Theory, ed. Jeffery Jerome Cohen (Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1996). American Anthropologist, March 1998: 177-80.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France, Nicholas Mirzoeff (Princeton: UP, 1995). Gallaudet Today, Fall 1997: 29.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of The Cultural World of “Beowulf,” John M. Hill (Toronto, UP, 1995). South Atlantic Review 61.1 (January 1996): 126-29.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Thinking about “Beowulf,” James W. Earl (Stanford: UP, 1994). South Atlantic Review 60.3 (September 1995): 113-16.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and across Cultures, Constance Classen (London: Routledge, 1993). American Anthropologist 97 (1995): 579-80.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes, Philip Zazove (Washington: Gallaudet UP, 1993) and Listening, Hanna Merker (New York: Harper, 1991). Gallaudet Today Spring 1994: 32.

Bragg, Lois. Rvw. of Humiliation and Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence, William Ian Miller (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993). Scandinavian Studies 66 (1994): 469-71.

Bragg, Lois. Reviews of various popular novels in Best Sellers, 1978-85.

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