Author Archives: jenniferlorden

I was incredibly honored to receive William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award for 2026. More than the award itself, I’m grateful to my students and colleagues for taking the time to nominate me for this award and for their kind words about my work. You can read more at the link below:

A couple of months ago I was able to share some of my ongoing book project at an event titled “Bathhouses, Battle Scars, and Unicorns: Fiction and Belief in Early England,” sponsored by the English Department and Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Wake Forest University. You can read more about the eventContinue reading “Fiction and Belief in Early England”

My newest book, Literary Form in Early Medieval England, is available open access here for the next two weeks! Come download it for free! This is part of the Cambridge series Elements in England in the Early Medieval World. Here’s a quick description of the book: “The earliest English writers left little comment on theirContinue reading “New Book – Literary Form in Early Medieval England – Available Open Access for a Limited Time!”

Last month I was delighted to share my work in progress, “Nonimpossible Things: St. Eustace’s Crisis of Belief” the Yale Medieval Colloquium. This work comes from my ongoing research on the ways that narrative works in early medieval England. Looking forward to sharing more of this work soon!

My article, “The Hero of His Own Life: Beowulf, Jesus, and the Poetics of the Old English Andreas” is now available in JEGP 123, no. 4! You can find it here, or email me for a copy.

This summer I visited the British Library in London and the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and presented some of my ongoing research on Old English narrative at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. Looking forward to developing this work for an article soon–stay tuned!

CFPs for Old English Panels at MLA 2025 in New Orleans – please share widely! Abstracts due by March 15. INVISIBLE VIOLENCE AND ARCHIVAL ERASURE Recent scholarship on early medieval England has provoked a reparative moment: as researchers, often early career scholars, engage newly explicitly diverse theoretical and political commitments, they ask us all toContinue reading “CFPs for Old English Panels at MLA 2025”

I’m delighted to be speaking at the Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloquium today. I’ll be speaking on “Mixed Feelings: Finding Medieval Affect in Early English Poetics.” You can find a program for the event here.