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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.

My article, “Discernment and Dissent in the Cynewulf Poems” is out in Modern Philology vol. 116, no. 4 now!

I’ll be speaking on “‘Rude Exclamations’: Beowulf, Identity, and the Making of Medieval English” at Bates College, at 4:15 PM on 21 March 2019.

I’m organizing the following session for Kalamazoo ICMS 2019–get in touch if you’re interested in presenting or have any questions! Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2019 Early English Poetics This session will bring together scholars working across boundaries of period, language, and subfield, to consider anew the configurations within which the earliest English poetry was made.Continue reading “CFP for Kalamazoo 2019: Early English Poetics”