About

Jennifer Lorden is an assistant professor of English at the College of William & Mary. Her first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, appeared from Cambridge University Press in 2023; she is also the author of Literary Form in Early Medieval England, currently in press for the Cambridge Elements series England in the Early Medieval World. Her current book project, The Claims of Fiction in Early Medieval England, considers how the post-Classical and proto-Romance fictions of early England negotiate problems of fiction and truth. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Medium Ævum, Modern Philology, and elsewhere. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley and her master’s from the University of Oxford.