The College of

Arts and Sciences

 

PhD Indiana University

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Medieval Literature and Culture

• Lyric poetry

• Early Drama

• Nature of Women Debate

• Game of Love

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 4600 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spring 2022

• ENGL 3123 H(onors) Mythology, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022

• ENGL 2543 British Literature Survey I, Spring 2019, Spring 2022

• ENGL 2413 H(onors) Medievalisms (taught as Explorations in Literature), Fall 2020, Fall 2021

• ENGL 2413 Explorations in Literature, Spring 2019, Fall 2019

• ENGL 1313 H(onors) Battle of the Sexes: Critical Analysis and Writing, Fall 2019, Fall 2021

• ENGL 1213 Composition II, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021

• ENGL 1113 Composition I,  Fall 2018, Fall 2020

Selected Publications

• "Outcast Lyrics: Medieval Reading vs Modern Editing Practices." in Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Language, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn. De Gruyter. 2021.

• “A Series of Unfortunate Events: Collation Errors in Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid.” Notes & Queries. June, 2020.

• “The Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.1.6).” Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. (Feb, 2018).

• “Buried in an Hert: French Poetics and the Ends of Genre in Chaucer’s ‘The Complaint Unto Pity.’” The Chaucer Review 51, no. 2 (2016): 187-208.

Selected Conference Presentations

• "Signs of Book-borrowing and Text Transmission in Late-Medieval Derbyshire." Early Book Society, online, 2021.

•  “Assembling Arguments: The Collecting and Repurposing of Texts for the Late-medieval Nature of Women Debate.” Making the English Book Conference, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, October 2017. (Invited Lecture).

• “Letting Gower Teach the Game of Love.” International Congress of the John Gower Society, Durham, England, 2017.

•  “Sowing the ‘Seed of Conpleynte’: Surveying the Manuscript Contexts for Middle English Querelle des Femmes Texts.” Early Book Society Conference, Durham, England, 2017.

•  “Querelle over and in the Findern MS (CUL MS Ff.1.6): An Analysis of Women's Names and Female Voices within the Manuscript.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2016.

Awards and Recognition

• New Chaucer Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2016/17 ($50,000)

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship: "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," 2016 ($3,300)

• Schallek Award Recipient, Medieval Academy of America, 2013 ($2,000)

Curent Research

Book under contract: Playing the Game of Love: Intertextuality in the Findern Manuscript. New Century Chaucer Series, University of Wales.