Author Archives: jenniferlorden

My first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, has now become available open access through Cambridge University Press! Please check it out here, and feel free to share! I’m delighted that my work could be made accessible to all through Cambridge’s Flip it Open program.

Excited that my new article, “Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus,” is out now in Modern Philology! Free access here. I’m also thrilled that my article inspired the choice of cover image, Henry Justice Ford, Crossing the River (1911), for the story “Malchus the Monk,” inContinue reading “Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus, in Modern Philology now!”

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!