Ph.D. in English and Medieval Studies (UC Berkeley)
MA in Creative Writing (UC Berkeley)
Areas of Interest
Old English language and literature
Middle English literature
Digital humanities
Environmental humanities and eco-criticism
New materialisms
Diasporic literatures
Identity formation studies
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 308: Beowulf & Friends
ENG 305/605 Introduction to Old English
ENG 302/602: Beyond England: Early Medieval Travelers, Missionaries, and Immigrants in Early Medieval Literature
ENG 302: The Sword and the Screen: New Tricks with Old Texts
ENG 265: British Literature Before 1800
ENG 190: Listicle Literature: The History of a Form
ENG 165: Riddle Me This: Puzzles, Puns, and Palimpsests
ENG 165: What She Said: Women’s Voices in Old English
ENG 150: Rewriting the Medieval: Modern Interpretations of Past Texts
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Navigating Landmarks of Identity in Pre-Conquest English Literature, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
“Many Paths Across Pale Fields: Repetition and Doubling in Early English Missionary Latin,” forthcoming from Speculum (2027).
“The West Saxon Boundary Clause in Context: Celtic and Continental Connections,” Early Medieval Europe (2023).
“As Though ‘Wit’ Never Were: The Dual Pronoun as Interpretive Crux in The Wife’s Lament,” JEGP (forthcoming, 2022).
“Sweart as Sin: Color Connotation and Morality in Anglo-Saxon England,” in Darkness, Depression and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Ruth Wehlau, Richard Rawlinson Center Series in Anglo-Saxon Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019), pp. 15-36.
“More Than Meets the Eye: Cultural Color Resonances in Old English Literature,” in The Daily Lives of the Anglo-Saxons, ed. Carole Biggam, Carole Hough, and Daria Izdebska, Essays in Anglo-Saxons Studies 8 (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2018), pp. 139-157.
