I am an Associate Professor of English, specializing in medieval literature, at the College of Charleston.
In Spring 2013, I’m teaching ENGL 201 (British Literature to 1800) and ENGL 361 (Medieval Textualities).
In Fall 2012, I taught ENGL 201 (British Literature to 1800) and ENGL 309 (English Language: Grammar and History).
In Spring 2012, I taught ENGL 110 (Introduction to Academic Writing) and ENGL 360 (Future Perfect Human).
In Fall 2011, I taught ENGL 299 (Introduction to English Studies) and ENGL 395 (Making Matter Matter in Premodern England).
In Spring 2011, I taught ENGL 299 (Introduction to English Studies) and ENGL 400 (a senior seminar, Medieval Prime Time: Entertaining the Family in Fifteenth-Century England).
I have three recent and forthcoming publications.
Recently published with punctum books is a collection I co-edited, called Dark Chaucer. (This, like all punctum books publications, is available for free as an electronic download, and you may also purchase a print-on-demand copy for just $15.) In it, I have an essay called “Disconsolate Poetics.”
In December 2011 appeared the essay “Late-Medieval Conduct Literature” in the History of British Women’s Writing, 700-1500 (ed. Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt).
Forthcoming in Spring 2013 is a journal article based on my experiences teaching the senior seminar “Medieval Prime Time” in Spring 2011; this article is part of a special issue of the journal Pedagogy on “Teaching Off the Grid” (that is, using non-canonical texts in the medieval English literature classroom).
My academic year holds five conferences and symposia:
I am currently co-organizing a series of two symposia sponsored by the BABEL Working Group in 2013 on Critical/Liberal/Arts, hosted at the University of California at Irvine in April 2013 and by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in September 2013.
In January 2013, I participated in the Modern Language Association convention in Boston, as part of a roundtable sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals on “Inventing New Journals: The Pressures for and against New Scholarly Publications.”
In September 2012 I co-organized the BABEL Working Group’s second biennial conference in Boston. There, I presented a paper on “Medieval Drag: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the SCA” and co-organized a session on “Will It Blend? Equipping the Humanities Lab.”During summer 2012, I organized a session on “Emotional Literacy” for the New Chaucer Society congress in Portland in July, where I also presented a talk on “Reckoning with Divine Things.”
In May 2012 I attended the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, to present on “61 Reasons I Can’t Leave This Ashmole” in the “Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go” roundtable session sponsored by the BABEL Working Group; I chaired the complementary session called “Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go.” At Kalamazoo I also presented a paper on “Allied Objects in Medieval Romance” in a session on “Romance and the Material Book.”
In June 2013 I will attend the Middle Ages in the Modern World conference at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where I will present a talk on “Representing Re-enactment.”
I am also at work on a book, Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England.
I co-edit the journal postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.
I am co-founder and treasurer of the BABEL Working Group.
I am a member of the English Department’s Curriculum Committee.