Leonard Neidorf is Professor of English at Nanjing University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from New York University. He is the author of two monographs—The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet (Cornell University Press, 2022) and The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (Cornell University Press, 2017)—as well as the editor of three books. He is an Associate Editor of English Studies (Taylor & Francis). In 2020, Neidorf was awarded the Beatrice White Prize by the English Association for his research on medieval literature. Neidorf has published more than 80 papers in A&HCI journals. His work has appeared in a wide range of journals including ELH, Folklore, Modern Philology, Review of English Studies, Tolkien Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, and Nature Human Behaviour.