Melissa Filbeck is a PhD candidate in the English department at Texas A&M University, where she studies medieval literature, children’s literature, and the digital humanities. She earned her BA and MA in English at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Her dissertation project focuses on the relationship between Beowulf and race in its various reception environments through the centuries, with the goal of interrogating the disquieting connections between the reception of medieval literature and the promotion of white nationalism. Melissa currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and three cats, and works as a Writing Consultant and Lecturer at CSUN.