Daniel Stoll

Pronouns: he/him/his

Email: dsstoll@wisc.edu

Year Admitted: 2024

Bio

Daniel Stoll is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies. He explores elegiac storytelling and the poetics of ruin, ruination, extinction, and apocalypse across epic traditions in English, with particular attention to Beowulf, Middle English epic and chivalric romance, and epic fantasy, especially Tolkien. His broader interests include Old Norse literature, oral tradition and theory, mythology, sound studies, and philosophy.

Research Interests

Old English, Fantasy Literature, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, and Medievalism.