Jennifer Lorden
@jenlorden.bsky.social
Writing about old things at W&M, PhD UC Berkeley. Author FORMS OF DEVOTION IN EARLY ENGLISH POETRY (Cambridge UP) and LITERARY FORM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ENGLAND (Cambridge UP) she/her 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own.
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Literary Form in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Literary Form in Early Medieval England
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My newest book, Literary Form in Early Medieval England, is available open access 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.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
August 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
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Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
RIC - it's not huge but it's incredibly efficient, honestly makes life so much easier flyrichmond.com/richmond-int...
August 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
RIC - it's not huge but it's incredibly efficient, honestly makes life so much easier flyrichmond.com/richmond-int...
Check out this excerpt of the brilliant @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's monograph, "Straight White Men Can't Dance," forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September!!
"This book’s title points to a particularly American notion that cishet white men are unable to dance well."
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's excerpt of “Excerpt of Straight White Men Can't Dance" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/30/e...
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's excerpt of “Excerpt of Straight White Men Can't Dance" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/30/e...
Excerpt: "Straight White Men Can't Dance" - Chicago Review of Books
It’s true, though, isn’t it? Over the last five years, this quip became a refrain, uttered in response to my elevator pitch of this project, a study of a trope I identify as proliferating in American...
chireviewofbooks.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Check out this excerpt of the brilliant @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's monograph, "Straight White Men Can't Dance," forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September!!
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(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing
June 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing
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The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself.
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself.
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of
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Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy."
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Catalog of Courses
Browse the latest courses from Harvard University
pll.harvard.edu
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy."
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏
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Why is it that BlackRock is doing a better job defending the value of the liberal arts than most actual higher education administrators?
May 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Why is it that BlackRock is doing a better job defending the value of the liberal arts than most actual higher education administrators?
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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
www.dailycal.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Glad to see that it's not too hot today, nor too cold - you really only need a light jacket
#PerfectDate
#PerfectDate
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Glad to see that it's not too hot today, nor too cold - you really only need a light jacket
#PerfectDate
#PerfectDate
Literary Form in Early Medieval England - free to download for five more days! Please share! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Literary Form in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Literary Form in Early Medieval England
doi.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Literary Form in Early Medieval England - free to download for five more days! Please share! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
I don't know who needs to hear this but the Disco Elysium soundtrack is fantastic for grading.
Disco Elysium (OST) - Full + Tracklist | British Sea Power [Original Game Soundtrack]
YouTube video by Kami Gawa
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April 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this but the Disco Elysium soundtrack is fantastic for grading.
My newest book, Literary Form in Early Medieval England, is available open access 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.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Literary Form in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Literary Form in Early Medieval England
www.cambridge.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My newest book, Literary Form in Early Medieval England, is available open access 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.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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We need to keep the cuts to the NEH at the forefront of national, local media attention. I just had a convo today with someone from my local Mass state rep's office about how the cuts to the NEH & NSF etc. and the broader war on higher education will have destructive effects locally.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has begun slashing its staff following directives from the Trump administration to shrink the federal workforce, deepening the blow to cultural organizations, researchers and programs across the country.
Staff cuts begin at NEH, threatening humanities programs across U.S.
A union said almost 75 percent of National Endowment for the Humanities staff should prepare for reductions in force, around a week after grants were canceled.
wapo.st
April 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We need to keep the cuts to the NEH at the forefront of national, local media attention. I just had a convo today with someone from my local Mass state rep's office about how the cuts to the NEH & NSF etc. and the broader war on higher education will have destructive effects locally.
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the pinnacle of human achievement
March 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
the pinnacle of human achievement
Hi all! Just a reminder to send in abstracts by this Friday, 3/15!!
The MLA Old English Forum is sponsoring two panels at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan 8-11. Please share the following widely! (Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2025) (1/5):
March 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hi all! Just a reminder to send in abstracts by this Friday, 3/15!!
Grateful to Barbara Newman and Modern Philology for this thoughtful review of my book: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling. Jennifer A. Lorden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. viii+226. | Modern Philology: Vol 122, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Grateful to Barbara Newman and Modern Philology for this thoughtful review of my book: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
The MLA Old English Forum is sponsoring two panels at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan 8-11. Please share the following widely! (Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2025) (1/5):
January 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The MLA Old English Forum is sponsoring two panels at the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto, Jan 8-11. Please share the following widely! (Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2025) (1/5):
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On @projectmuse.bsky.social in Journal of English & Germanic Philology 123.4, @jenlorden.bsky.social argues that Andreas can't displace suffering because he is a secondary character in his own story. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939567
January 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
On @projectmuse.bsky.social in Journal of English & Germanic Philology 123.4, @jenlorden.bsky.social argues that Andreas can't displace suffering because he is a secondary character in his own story. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/939567
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Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
So delighted to see my strange Andreas article out in the world!!
Volume 123, Iss. 4 of Journal of English and Germanic Philology is out on @projectmuse.bsky.social , featuring articles by @jenlorden.bsky.social , Jane Griffiths, Sverrir Jakobsson, Sif Rikhardsdottir, and Sophia D'Ignazio. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53468
January 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
So delighted to see my strange Andreas article out in the world!!
Two genders for everybody to share is just unsanitary. Genders should be changed regularly, you have to at least let them air out before you put them on again 💅🏻
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Two genders for everybody to share is just unsanitary. Genders should be changed regularly, you have to at least let them air out before you put them on again 💅🏻