Browse the CFP and submit your abstracts here: icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr...

Perhaps AI will be the grit that makes the pearl: making institutions articulate, for the first time in decades if not ever, what the hell they’re about and what an education is supposed to be for. (This from the MIT committee‘s report on AI)

The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!

I'm late getting my cards out for St Swithun's Day again, ugh

Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

St Swithun in golden episcopal vestments: let's hope it rains today! BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold; 963 CE-984 CE; England, S.; f.97v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Friends! I'm organizing a session for Kalamazoo 2027! Please share and get in touch if you have questions or ideas you'd like to talk about: (1/4)

After a recent milestone birthday, finding Solomon's tone very pointed this morning. (From Dan Anlezark's ed and trans of Solomon and Saturn II)

Come see how I followed up this opening line:

Jennifer Lorden@jenlorden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, has now become available open access through Cambridge University Press! Please check it out here, and feel free to share! I'm delighted that my work could be made accessible to everyone. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

My first book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, has now become available open access through Cambridge University Press! Please check it out here, and feel free to share! I'm delighted that my work could be made accessible to everyone. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

Cambridge Core - Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature - Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry

cambridge.org

Grateful to Hannah Bailey for this thoughtful review of my book:

TOEBI@toebi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📚 Book review by Hannah M. Bailey 📘Literary Form in Early Medieval England ✍️ Jennifer A. Lorden 📝TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Absolutely devastated for these lovers separated from each other two and a half millennia before i was even born. From the book, "Cut These Words into My Stone: Ancient Greek Epitaphs" (Wolfe, Michael)

This is sooo cooolll!!! I’m spending my free time for the rest of today reading the journal article about this.

Elizabeth Boyle@thecelticist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome." #MedievalSky #speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Also if you're a trans medievalist, apply for the Trans Travel Fund, also offered through SMFS ! More details here: smfsweb.org/trans-travel...

Dr Basil Arnould Price@basilaprice.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship @socmedfem.bsky.social is funding PhD students! More details here: smfsweb.org/foremothersfellowship.

I'm also thrilled that my article inspired the choice of cover image, Henry Justice Ford, Crossing the River (1911), for the story “Malchus the Monk,” in The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Leonora Lang, ed. Andrew Lang (London: Longmans, Green, 1912)

Jennifer Lorden@jenlorden.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited that my new article, "Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus," is out now in Modern Philology! Free access to the first 50 readers here (or email/DM me!): www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/X9HPY...

Excited that my new article, "Just as We Read Anywhere: Type Texts, Intertexts, and the Earliest English Lives of Malchus," is out now in Modern Philology! Free access to the first 50 readers here (or email/DM me!): www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/X9HPY...

I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

This makes me so happy and proud 😭

Heidi Zmick@hczmick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Teaching Old English elegies to my students today - thinking back on almost exactly four years ago when I took medieval lit and learned about these poems for the first time from @jenlorden.bsky.social !

Grateful to Alice Jorgensen and JEGP for this lovely review of my first book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

The MLA Old English Forum is now accepting paper proposals for the 2027 annual meeting, 7-10 January. We’re accepting 300-word proposals for two guaranteed sessions until March 15, 2026 for 15-20 minute papers. Please share widely!! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions. (1/6)

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Feeling immensely grateful at the end of this tough year. I got tenure, was humbled to receive generous recognition from colleagues, and got some exciting professional news in the last few weeks. There's so much work to do but most of the people I get to do it with are pretty great.

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.

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last yr.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

RIC - it's not huge but it's incredibly efficient, honestly makes life so much easier flyrichmond.com/richmond-int...

Richmond International Airport Named Most Efficient in North America - Richmond International Airport

Focus on customer service, progressive vision helps Virginia airport ascend to top spot

flyrichmond.com

Matt Brown@mattbrown.bsky.social · last yr.

Actually, you know what? Let’s stop complaining for a second. QT this with a GOOD airport. Defend that title as much or as little as you like. But let’s hear about airports that don’t suck.

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

Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

"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...

(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

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.

The only liquid modernity I accept

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!! 👏👏👏