Author Archives: jenniferlorden

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.

This week I was delighted to present some new work at the symposium, “Elsewheres and Otherworlds: New Work in Early English Studies” at UNC. You can find more information about the symposium here.

For Fifteen Eighty Four, I wrote about my new book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, and how modern scholars think about the past. Check it out here.

My book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, is available in hardback and ebook from Cambridge University Press! You can buy a copy here, or ask your library to buy one!