Jennifer Lorden

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

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But also, the fact that my first run at a Beowulf seminar, during plague lockdown, went as well as it did was entirely thanks to y'all being such a fantastic group, and I think about you all a lot, actually.

Understood as interrogating assertions of "standard" Modern English, I'd say it's a practice worthy only of "lof," that is, praise :D

Check out this excerpt of the brilliant @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's monograph, "Straight White Men Can't Dance," forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September!!

(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

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

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!! 👏👏👏

Why is it that BlackRock is doing a better job defending the value of the liberal arts than most actual higher education administrators?

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.

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.

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Glad to see that it's not too hot today, nor too cold - you really only need a light jacket

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Literary Form in Early Medieval England - free to download for five more days! Please share! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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I don't know who needs to hear this but the Disco Elysium soundtrack is fantastic for grading.

Thank you so much for sharing!!

Thank you, Nicole!!

Thank YOU for sharing!!

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but continue in surprising ways. Literary Form in Early Medieval England offers a concise tour of what we do know of literary forms, both those that have received more attention and those that have been relatively overlooked, across the first six centuries of English literature."

and formal innovation. Literary Form in Early Medieval England examines both more and lesser known forms, considering the multilingual landscape of early medieval England and showing that Old English literary forms do not simply end with the rupture of the Norman Conquest

early medieval English writing offers only sparse contemporaneous self-commentary, often in brief or conventional notes along the way to other things. But Old English and Latin literature had lively and evolving practices of literary form

Here's a quick description of the book:

"The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature,

Literary Form in Early Medieval England Cambridge Core - European Studies - Literary Form in Early Medieval England

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.

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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 pinnacle of human achievement

Hi all! Just a reminder to send in abstracts by this Friday, 3/15!!

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

Grateful to Barbara Newman and Modern Philology for this thoughtful review of my book: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
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uses of runes or ciphers, and other linguistic special effects across genres and formal conventions, across translations and adaptations, and across the boundaries of language. Send a 250-word proposal and CV to jalorden@wm.edu and saltzman@chicago.edu by 15 March, 2025. (5/5)