Daniel Stoll

Daniel Stoll is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies with a primary focus on Old English language and literature, epic and high fantasy, and ecocriticism. His research explores elegiac storytelling and the poetics of ruin, ruination, extinction, and apocalypse across epic traditions in English, with particular attention to Beowulf, Middle English Grail narratives, Spenser, Milton, and Tolkien. He also engages with Old Norse texts, including the Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and sagas. His broader interests include oral tradition and theory, medievalism, mythology, animal studies, sound studies, philosophy, and the works of Cormac McCarthy.