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, medieval architecture, and studies in folklore and oral traditions. She has published on such topics as the Anglo-Saxon charms, the Old English poems Judith and Andreas, Middle English carols, and proverbs in medieval narrative verse. Her book, Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, is forthcoming with The University of Notre Dame Press in the Poetics of Orality and Literacy series.
Ph.D., English, University of Missouri, Columbia. 2000
M.A., English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 1995
B.A., cum laude, English, Hendirx College, Conway Arkansas. 1992
English 151 - First Year Writing Seminar
English 320 - Medieval Literature
Books
Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England. Forthcoming with the University of Notre Dame Press. Poetics of Orality and Literacy Series.
Articles and Chapters
"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. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005 255-77.
"Old English Charms in Performance." Oral Tradition 19 (2004): 20-42.
"Medieval Voices." Oral Tradition 18 (2003): 216-18.
"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.
"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. Choice 36 (1999): 1611].