Education
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
B.A., English/History, Wake Forest University
Scholarly Focus
Medieval Literature, Old English Language and Literature, Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, Translation Theory, Network Theory, Eco-criticism, Media Studies
Publications
“Distant Knowledge in the British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.v Wonders of the East” in Review of English Studies (forthcoming 2017, available via advance access).
“Scars of History: Temporal Archives and A Game of Thrones” in American/Medieval: Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer , eds. Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttigen) (forthcoming 2016)
“Dream of the Rood” in the Wiley Handbook on Medieval Literature , ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse, forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell (2017)
“Saintly Ecologies: Tracing Collectivities in the Life of King Oswald of Northumbria,” in The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life and Law in Medieval Britain , eds. Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016): pp. 127-150
“Monsters,” in Medieval Culture: A Compendium of Critical Topics, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: DeGruyter, 2015): pp. 1167-1183
“ Alfredian Temporalities: Time and Translation in the Old English Orosius ,” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology , Vol. 112, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 405-432.
" Why We Blog: An Essay in Four Movements ” with Jeffrey Cohen, Eileen Joy, and Karl Steel, Literature Compass , Special Issue on “E-Medieval”(December 2012)
“Ruins of the Past: Beowulf and Bethlehem Steel,” T he Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 13 (2010)
Digital edition and translation of “The Geographical Preface to the Old English Orosius,” The Digital Mappamundi Project , directed by Martin K. Foys and Asa Simon Mittman (2010)
Courses Taught
- ENG 2020: Poetry and Drama
- ENG 3110: Tolkien's Middle Ages
- ENG 3110: English Literature to 1500
- ENG 3510: History of the English Language
- ENG 4600: Topics in English Studies (Love and Monsters: Medieval Romance and the Legend of Arthur)
- ENG 5090: Medieval Literature (graduate)
- ENG 7090: Community, Collectivity, Ecology (graduate)