Education & Professional History
Harvard College, AB; Cambridge University, MPhil; Yale University, PhD
At Carleton since 2002.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Recent publications:
“What to Choose: ‘Alas Quid Eligam Ignoro’ and Professional Anxiety in Middle English Literature,” Studies in Philology 118 (2021): 1-25.
“London Histories” in Historical Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 500-1500, ed. Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 244-251.
“School Ties: The Evidence of Alumni Friendships in Later Medieval England,” History of Universities 31.2 (2019): 1-22.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
Modern Language Association, New Chaucer Society, International Piers Plowman Society
Current Courses
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Fall 2024
ENGL 203:
Other Worlds of Medieval English Literature
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Winter 2025
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Spring 2025
PUBLICATIONS:
“What to Choose: ‘Alas Quid Eligam Ignoro’ and Professional Anxiety in Middle English Literature.” Studies in Philology 118 (2021): 1-25.
“London Histories” in Historical Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 500-1500, ed. Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 244-251.
“School Ties: The Evidence of Alumni Friendships in Later Medieval England,” History of Universities 31.2 (2019): 1-22.
“Sorry, Chaucer: Mixed Feelings and The Ribald Tales of Canterbury (1985),” in Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales, ed. Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016. Pp. 149-66.
“John Carpenter, Lay Clerk,” The Chaucer Review, 48 (2014): 434-56.
“Chaucerian Obscenity in the Court of Public Opinion,” The Chaucer Review 47 (2012): 1-24.
“Romance, Popular Style and the Confessio Amantis: Conflict or Evasion?” In John Gower, Trilingual Poet. Ed. Elisabeth Dutton. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2010. Pp. 74-84.
A Late Fifteenth-Century Household Miscellany: An Edition of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61. Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications (for TEAMS), 2008.
“Is There a Minstrel in the House? Domestic Entertainment in Late Medieval England,” Philological Quarterly 87 (2008), 51-76.
“Old and Middle English Educational Literature.” In The International Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages – Online. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
“Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book,” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 18 (2004): 55-72.
REVIEWS
Review of The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021); Speculum 97 (2022), 1217-8.
Review of Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France, ed. Glenn Burger and Rory Critten (Manchester University Press, 2020); Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 389-93.
Review of Conduct Becoming: Good Wives and Husbands in the Later Middle Ages, Glenn Burger (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018); The Medieval Review, Sept. 2018.
Review of A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry, ed. Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (Boydell and Brewer, 2013); The Medieval Review, Sept. 2014.
Review of The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive Vol. 6: San Marino, Huntington Library MS 128, ed. Michael Calabrese, Hoyt Duggan, and Thorlac Turville-Petre (Boydell and Brewer, 2008); Speculum 85 (2010), 984-6.
Review of The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman Vols. 1 and 5, ed. Stephen A. Barney and Andrew Galloway (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009), 301-4.
Review of Essays in Manuscript Geography: Vernacular Manuscripts of the English West Midlands from the Conquest to the Sixteenth Century, ed. Wendy Scase (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007); The Medieval Review Online, Sept. 2008.
Review of Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt by Robert J. Meyer-Lee (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007); The Medieval Review Online, Sept. 2007. (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/6258).
Review of Amoral Gower by Diane Watt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2003), The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 104 (2005): 561-4.
Mountain biking (badly), gravel biking (slowly), canoeing (enthusiastically), cooking and eating (frequently)
