CONTACT INFORMATION:
Lecturer
Department of English
208 English Building
University of Illinois
608 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
 

Office Telephone:	(217) 233-7059
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Active email:	lagarner@uiuc.edu
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Current area(s) of research:
Old English language and literature
Middle English language and literature
oral tradition and folklore 
 

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

“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), pp. 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.

“Medieval Voices,”  Oral Tradition 18.2 (2003), 216-18.

“The National Curriculum and the Teaching of Oral Traditions,”  Teaching Oral Traditions, ed. John Miles Foley (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), pp. 403-22.  (with Lynn C. Lewis)

“Oral-Formulaic Theory” and "Ring Composition," Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Jahn Manfred, and Marie-Laure Ryan (London: Routledge)

Book in progress: Oral Tradition, Architecture, and Old English Poetry
 
 

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Old English verse translations and adaptations of Latin sources

History of the Medieval Book;
Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England;
Intersections between oral traditions and written texts