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.
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New Essay on “The Complicated Feelings of Early English Writing” on the Fifteen Eighty Four Blog
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.
Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry available now from Cambridge University Press!
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!
“Educating Apollonius” at Leeds IMC
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 Old English Calls for Papers
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”
Review of Nicholas Watson, Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology before the English Reformation, Volume I
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!
Review of Maren Clegg-Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, eds., Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World
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 2023 Old English Calls for Papers
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”
“Revisiting the Legendary History of Deor” now in Medium Ævum
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”
“Tale and Parable: Theorizing Fictions in the Old English Boethius” in PMLA
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.
Jennifer A. Lorden 