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Loren is the current Chair of the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America and serves the UVA Medieval Studies Program as a graduate student representative. She is also the 2024-2025 Digital Humanities Fellow of the Scholars' Lab.

In addition to her studies at UVA, she has completed extensive coursework with Rare Book School, earning a certification in the History of Manuscripts. She was a pensionnaire étranger at the ENS in Paris for the 2023-2024 academic year at which time she was able to conduct manuscript research for her dissertation with the support of several major fellowships. 

Her research interests include representations of identity, women, and the body in pre-modern literature, particularly in hagiography. Her dissertation focuses on medieval manuscript studies, digital humanities methods, editing, and translation studies. In addition to Modern French, she also reads Old French, German, and Latin.

Before joining UVA, Loren earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and French and Francophone Studies and a Master of Science degree in Theory and Practice in Teacher Education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She then taught English and French at the secondary level for several years first outside of Montpellier, France and then in the Richmond, Virginia area. 

Honors / Awards:

• UVA Scholars' Lab Digital Humanities Fellowship
• Chateaubriand Fellowship
• UVA-ENS Exchange Fellowship
• SPFFA Jeanne Marandon Doctoral Research Fellowship
• UVA Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship
• Rare Book School (RBS) - UVA Fellowship