English

Specialty

Medieval Literature (on sabbatical 2019-2020)

Teaching

CORE 106

ENG 100 – King Arthur

ENG 241 – Text & Image

ENG 281 – Working with Medieval Manuscripts

ENG 310 – Medieval Literature (topics vary)

ENG 330 – Chaucer

ENG 450 – Medieval Dream Visions (Fall 2018)

Professional Experience

London Humanities Overseas Program (2017)

Siena Overseas Program (2011)

Research

“‘And every creature heard I say Glory’ (Rev 5:13): Avianus and the Apocalypse in Paris, MS NAL 1132,” in After the Carolingians, eds. Beatrice E. Kitzinger and Joshua O’Driscoll, Sense, Matter, and Medium: New Approaches to Medieval Culture (Berlin: De Gruyter) – forthcoming winter 2018

“Lady Poverty’s Overthrow of Dame Largesse: The Uneasy Place of Generosity in St. Francis’s Virtues,” The World of St. Francis (Siena: Betti Editrice, 2016).

“In the Presence of the Past and the Shadows of Futurity: Petrarch, Vernacular Art Criticism, and the Anticipation of the Connoisseur,” Mediaevalia 36/37 (2015/16): 147-86.

“Seeing John: A Commentary on the Link Word of Pearl Fitt XVII,” Glossator 9 (2015): 326-54.

“Chaucer’s Silent Italy,” Studies in Philology 109 (2012): 19-44.

“Scholar Saints and Boccaccio’s Trattatello in laude di Dante,” MLN 124 (2009): 66-85.

“Hunting, Heraldry, and the Fall in the Boke of St. Albans,” Viator 38 (2007): 191-215

“Chaucer, Mary Magdalene, and the Consolation of Love,” Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 1-37.

“Virgilian Hauntings in Boccaccio’s De casibus virorum illustrium,” Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. 31 (2005): 15-40.

Academic Credentials

Ph.D. 2005 Stanford University

M.Phil. 1998 Cambridge University

B.A. 1997 University of Southern California