Marijane Osborn
Professor Emerita Marijane Osborn | |
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| Occupation(s) | Academic, writer, researcher, and early ecocritic, with a specialism in medieval literature and culture |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medieval Studies, Old English literature |
| Institutions | UC Davis |
Marijane Osborn (born 1934) is an American academic. Her research spans literary disciplines; she is a specialist in Old English and Norse literature and is known as an early pioneer of ecocriticism. Osborn has published on runes, Middle English, Victorian and contemporary poets and writers, and film, and is a translator and fiction writer. She is Professor Emerita at UC Davis.