Erica Weaver is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in New Literary History, Representations, Anglo-Saxon England, and elsewhere, and her article on the Old English Boethius was awarded the Paul E. Szarmach Prize. She is also co-editor, with A. Joseph McMullen, of The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The Consolation and its Afterlives and, with Daniel C. Remein, of Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. She studied English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, summa cum laude, before completing her PhD in English at Harvard.