Lori Garner joined the Rhodes College faculty in Fall 2009. Her teaching and research interests include Old and Middle English literature, the history and structure of the English language, and studies in folklore and oral traditions. Her first book, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), explores the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within Old and Middle English verse. Her second book, Hybrid Healing: Old English Remedies and Medical Texts (University of Manchester Press, 2022), examines Old English charms and remedies within the dual contexts of oral tradition and literate culture. Additionally, she has published numerous articles on such topics as Old English saints鈥 lives, medieval carols and proverbs, modern adaptations of medieval texts, approaches to teaching oral traditions, and medieval pilgrimage. She currently serves as Director of the Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning, as secretary of the 番茄社区 faculty, and as faculty sponsor for the English honor society (Sigma Tau Delta), the Rhodes College chapter of HerCampus, the American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Club, and the Dungeons and Dragons Club.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
. Poetics of Orality and Literacy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
. Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2022.
Edited Volume
. Special issue of Oral Tradition 26.2 (2011). Guest-edited with R. Scott Garner.
Articles and Contributed Chapters
鈥溾赌業f tradition can be trusted...鈥: Pilgrimage, Place, and the Legend(s) of an Early English Saint.鈥 Modern Language Review, in press.
鈥淲eapons of Healing: Materiality and Oral Poetics in Old English Remedies and Medical Charms.鈥 . Ed. Andrew James Johnston and Jan-Peer Hartmann. Interventions Series. Ohio State University Press, 2021. 120-144.
鈥淒eaf Studies, Oral Tradition, and Old English Texts.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Exemplaria 29 (2017): 21-40.
鈥溾赌.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Oral History Review 43.2 (2016): 263-91.
鈥淩hetoric and Remedies; or, How to Persuade a Plant in Anglo-Saxon England.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Public Declamations: Essays on Medieval Rhetoric, Education, and Letters in Honor of Martin Camargo. Ed. Georgiana Donovan and Denise Stodola. Disputatio. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015. 155-168.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Festschrift for John Miles Foley. Special issue of Oral Tradition 26 (2011). With Kayla M. Miller. 355-76.
. Special issue of Oral Tradition 26 (2011). Co- authored with R. Scott Garner. 257-64.
鈥淭he History and Poetics of Architecture in La葴amon鈥檚 Brut.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the History of Philosophy 40 (2011): 179-208.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27.2 (2010): 157-81.
"." Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 53-63.
"The Role of Proverbs in Middle English Narrative." New Directions in Oral Theory. Ed. Mark C. Amodio. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005 255-77.
"." Oral Tradition 19 (2004): 20-42.
"." Oral Tradition 18 (2003): 216-18.
" Studia Neophilologica 73 (2001): 171-83.
"." Neophilologus 84 (2000): 467-82.
"Representations of Speech in the WPA Slave Narratives of Florida and the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston." Western Folklore 59 (2000): 215-31.
With Lynn C. Lewis. "The National Curriculum and the Teaching of Oral Traditions." Teaching Oral Traditions. Ed. John Miles Foley. New York: Modern Language Association, 1998. 403-22. [Rev. Choice36 (1999): 1611].
Shorter Pieces and Reviews
Review: Karkov, Catherine. Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia. Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020). Speculum 96.4 (2021), pp. 1186-1188.
Review: Bintley, Michael D. J. Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England: Texts, Landscapes, and Material Culture. Studies in the Early Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121.2 (2022), pp. 254-56.
Review: Dale, Corinne. The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles. Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: D.S.Brewer, 2017). The Medieval Review, December, 2017.
鈥淩emembering John Miles Foley,鈥 . Homenaje a John Miles Foley, Morelia: ENES UNAM. Digital platform.
鈥淛udith.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Encyclopedia of British and Medieval Literature. Eds. Si芒n Echard and Robert Rouse. Wiley-Blackwell. 2017. pp. 1104-1106.
鈥淭raditional Metonymy鈥 and 鈥淭heme." Dictionary of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media. Edited by Ray Person and Chris Keith. T & T Clark, 2017. pp.418-20; 425-28.
鈥淚n Memoriam: John Miles Foley, 1947-2012.鈥&苍产蝉辫;.
Review, with Ren茅e R. Trilling. Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe, ed. Nicholas Howe (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007). Western Folklore 68 (2010): 307-309.
Review: Mark C. Amodio. Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England.(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 (2007): 131-33.
鈥淥ral-Formulaic Theory鈥 and 鈥淩ing Composition.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Jahn Manfred, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge, 2005.
鈥淏ernie Babcock.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives. Ed. Nancy A. Williams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 12-13.