Lori Ann Garner is the author of Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, published in 2011 by the University of Notre Dame Press in the “Poetics of Orality and Literacy” series. Additionally, she has published on such topics as the Anglo-Saxon charms, the Old English poems Judith and Andreas, the Middle English Brut, medieval carols, modern adaptations of Beowulf, approaches to teaching oral traditions, and proverbs in medieval epic and romance. Together with Scott Garner, she guest-edited a Festschrift for John Miles Foley as a special issue of Oral Tradition (26.2) and now serves as associate editor for the journal. She is an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where she teaches courses on Old and Middle English, the history and structure of the English language, and folklore and oral traditions.
Lori Ann Garner (PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia) is assistant professor of medieval English literature at Rhodes College (Memphis, TN) and associate editor of Oral Tradition.
Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England. University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
Festschrift for John Miles Foley, guest editor (with R. Scott Garner). Special issue of Oral Tradition, 26.2 (2011).
“Swarm in July: Beekeeping Perspectives on the Old English Wið Ymbe Charm.” Festschrift for John Miles Foley. Oral Tradition 26 (2011):355-76. With Kayla M. Miller.
“The History and Poetics of Architecture in Layamon’s Brut.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the History of Philosophy 40 (2011): 179-208.
“Returning to Heorot: Beowulf’s Famed Hall and its Modern Incarnations.” Parergon 27.2 (2010): 157-81.
“Andreas and the Mermedonian Cityscape.” 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, 2005. 255-77.
“Old English Charms in Performance.” Oral Tradition 19 (2004): 20-42.
“The Art of Translation in the Old English Judith.” Studia Neophilologica 73 (2001): 171-83.
“Contexts of Interpretation in the Burdens of Middle English Carols.” Neophilologus 84 (2000): 467-82.
“The National Curriculum and the Teaching of Oral Traditions.” Teaching Oral Traditions. Ed. John Miles Foley. With Lynn Lewis. Modern Language Association, 1998. 403-22.
Presentation topic: Healing Charms, Sustainability, and the Old English Epic Tradition