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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”

From the essay: “The Deor we know from scholarship is a poem comprising episodes, isolated ‘examples’ illustrating the ‘moral … that when adversity comes we are to endure it, taking what small comfort we can from the thought that it will eventually pass’. This article, however, [argues] that a relative wealth of Germanic analogues allowsContinue reading ““Revisiting the Legendary History of Deor” now in Medium Ævum”

My article, “Tale and Parable: Theorizing Fictions in the Old English Boethius” appears in the May 2021 issue of PMLA. You can read it here.

My review of Myra L. Uhlfelder, The Consolation of Philosophy as Cosmic Image, is now available from The Medieval Review.

My essay, “He eft astod: A Verbal Motif in Beowulf,” is now available from Notes and Queries. You can take a look here, or get in touch with me at jalorden [at] wm [dot] edu.

I’ll be delivering a paper titled, “Old and Untrue: The Fictionality of the Old English Boethius” at the UNC Med-Ren Colloquium this Thursday, October 10th at 5PM in the Donovan Lounge. Details here.