Redigerer Helen Damico (avsnitt)

===Karriere===
Damico bidro med sitt verk ''Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition'' til forståelsen av kvinner i angelsaksisk og [[gammelnorsk]] litteratur. Hennes verk om [[Wealhþeow]] er også viktig i så måte.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carruthers|first=Leo|editor=Leo Carruthers|others=Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec|title=Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=favIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|year=2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230118805|pages=139–56|chapter=Rewriting Genres: ''Beowulf'' as Epic Romance}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=John M|title=Narrative Pulse of Beowulf: Arrivals and Departures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3g9cCr7924C&pg=PT65|year=2009|publisher=U of Toronto P|isbn=9781442691940|page=65}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Chickering|first=Howell|year=2009|title=Poetic Exuberance in the Old English ''Judith''|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_studies-in-philology_spring-2009_106_2/page/119|journal=[[Studies in Philology]]|volume=106|issue=2|pages=119–36|jstor=25656006}}</ref> Hun så representasjoner av [[valkyrie]]n i både Wealhþeow og i [[Grendel's Mother]] i det gammelengelske diktet Beowulf (ca. 700–1000).<ref name="Fugelso2010">{{cite book|last=Marshall|first=David W.|editor=Karl Fugelso|title=Defining Neomedievalism(s)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiX109CDWUcC&pg=PA136|accessdate=17. februar 2015|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9781843842286|pages=135–59|chapter=Getting Reel with Grendel's Mother: Abject Maternal and  Social Critique}}</ref>

Hennes siste bok, ''Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England'', kom i 2015.

Damico ble hedret med New Mexico Humanities Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Humanities og The Medieval Academy of America's CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies.

Hun døde 14. april 2020 på Ohio Living i Rockynol i Akron i Ohio som følge av [[covid-19]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Dr. Helen (Pittas) Damico |url=https://www.billowfuneralhomes.com/obituary/DrHelen-Damico |website=Billow Funeral Homes |accessdate=19. april 2020}}</ref>