Author Archives: jenniferlorden

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!

I presented my paper “Educating Apollonius: The Role of Historia in Old English Prose” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. If you registered for the conference, you can see the session here.

MLA 2024 will take place in Philadelphia, PA from 4th-7th January. Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the following three sessions sponsored by the Old English Forum. And please share widely–the deadline for all abstracts is 20th March, 2023! Celebrating Sorrow: Commemoration and Lamentation in Old English Evocations of sorrow mark loss, butContinue reading “MLA 2024 Old English Calls for Papers”

Very excited that my review of Nicholas Watson’s magisterial Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation, volume 1, Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250 is available from Modern Philology now!

My review of Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, edited by Maren Clegg-Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, is available to read now in the Journal of British Studies.

MLA Members, please consider submitting an abstract for the following three panels sponsored by the Old English Forum at the upcoming 2023 MLA meeting, to be held 5th-8th January in San Francisco. Please share widely–the deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th March, 2022! NEW: Old English, Middle English, and Contemporary Trans Studies Medieval studies isContinue reading “MLA 2023 Old English Calls for Papers”