Salve/Wes þu hal! I’m Graham (OE Græghama, LA Graehama, -ae). I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2023 with a BA in Old English, and another in English History, with a minor in Military History.

I began reading Old English (OE) midway through studying for my History degree, and immediately fell in love with the language, the literature, and the scholarship. One of the most prominent OE scholars, J.R.R. Tolkien, quickly also became a subject of my courses, and was the subject of my first publication, which attempted to point out one way Tolkien used the OE artistic animus to write The Lord of the Rings. Through my interest in Latin (a crucial language for serious OE scholarship) I happily fell into the spoken Latin community and was thereby inspired to develop an active learning framework for OE using the same principles. Following the example of my Latin colleagues, I've had an amazing time working on OE, as well as composing poetry in the traditional alliterative (and surprisingly complicated!) meter of early-medieval English.

When not reading OE or Latin, I am spending time with my wife and working on my YouTube channel. I fence competitively, and have recently begun to learn German.