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Jennifer Lorden
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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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Honored to talk to the W&M chapter of Phi Beta Kappa about medieval poems last week!
December 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Heading into the last week of an intense semester like
December 1, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Post your favorite Pokemon. Wrong answers only.
November 25, 2024 at 6:01 PM
My book came out a year ago, and I'm still pleased with the opening line. #MedievalSky
November 25, 2024 at 2:05 PM
For US friends who get a bit of time off this coming week for the holiday, I hope it's half as restful as this dog nap...
November 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Hi new friends! I'm a scholar of Old English thinking about fictionality, narrative, and "truth," and also poetic conventions and weird saints. My first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, is a formal history of the hybrid conventions that convey affective piety in early England.
November 20, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This animal is at least 50% cat
November 16, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Delighted to share my new article in JEGP, "The Hero of His Own Life: Beowulf, Jesus, and the Poetics of the Old English Andreas." It follows up on an argument from my first book about how Old English poetic saints' lives displace muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
November 12, 2024 at 6:21 PM
So excited to be part of the Cornell Medieval Studies Student Colloquium this weekend!!
February 29, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Very excited to be in an upcoming vol of New Medieval Literatures, with an essay in part on what burps smell like, no less
January 11, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I wrote about my new book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, for Fifteen Eighty Four - check it out here: www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/12/the-...
December 8, 2023 at 7:22 PM
December 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM
My book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, is available now from Cambridge University Press!
November 2, 2023 at 1:10 PM