INSTITUTIONS
Permanent appointments
Agnes Scott College, Margaret W. Pepperdene Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, 2016-2018; Associate Professor, 2018-2020; Professor, 2020-present
Indiana University South Bend, Assistant Professor, 2008-2011; Associate Professor, 2011-2016
Goshen College, Assistant Professor, 2004-2008
Rhodes College, Assistant Professor, 2001-2003
Visiting appointments
Agnes Scott College, Dabney Adams Hart Distinguished Visiting Humanities Professor, 2015-2016
University of Notre Dame, Department of English, Visiting Assistant Professor, spring 2005
University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Visiting Scholar, 2002-2017
Editorial positions
Editorial Board, Chaucer Studies series, Boydell and Brewer, October 2011-present
Editorial Board, The Chaucer Review, March 2010-present
Advisory Board, Journal for English and Germanic Philology, 2014-2015, 2022-present
Coeditor, Journal for English and Germanic Philology, September 2015-2019
Education
Yale University, PhD. in English language and literature, 2001
New York University, M.A. in English and American literature, 1992
Williams College, B.A. magna cum laude in computer science, 1986
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
The Problem of Literary Value. Manchester University Press, 2023; pp. xiv + 263; link to open access edition
Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge University Press, 2019; paperback edition, 2021, pp. x + 282
Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt. Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2009, pp. xi + 297
Edited collection of essays
The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form, edited with Catherine Sanok. Boydell and Brewer, 2018, pp. xii + 276
Articles and chapters
“Authorship.” In The Oxford History of Poetry in English, vol. 3, Poetry in English 1400-1500, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 91-108
“The First Riverside Chaucer.” The Chaucer Review 57.3, July 2022, pp. 253-72
“Editing JEGP: Some (Ambivalent) Reflections.” With Matthew Giancarlo. New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3.1, 2022, pp. 40-48, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qh1n467
“The First Chaucerians: Reception in the 1400s.” In Geoffrey Chaucer in Context, ed. Ian Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 403-9
“Introduction: The Literary through—or beyond?—Form.” With Catherine Sanok. In The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form, ed. Robert J. Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok, Boydell and Brewer, 2018, pp. 1-12
“The Memorial Form of John Lydgate’s Troy Book.” Exemplaria 29.4, Fall 2017, pp. 280-95
“Catholics, Mennonites, and Women: Julia Spicher Kasdorf and the Dreaded Humanities Survey,” Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 8.1, January 2016, http://www.mennonitewriting.org/journal/8/1/catholics-mennonites-and-women-julia-spicher-kasdo/#all
“Toward a Theory and Practice of Literary Valuing.” New Literary History 46.2, Spring 2015, pp. 335-55
“Literary Value and the Customs House: The Axiological Logic of Chaucer’s House of Fame.” The Chaucer Review 48.4, April 2014, pp. 374-94
“The Problem of Tale Order.” In Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed., ed. Peter Travis and Frank Grady, The Modern Language Association, 2014, pp. 67-72
“In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry.” In The Blackwell Companion to British Literature, ed. Heesok Chang, Robert DeMaria Jr., and Samantha Zacher, Blackwell, 2014, pp. 369-83
“Abandon the Fragments.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35, 2013, pp. 47-83
“John Lydgate’s Major Poems.” In A Companion to Fifteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, D. S. Brewer, 2013, pp. 59-71
“Conception Is a Blessing: Marian Devotion, Heresy, and the Literary in Skelton’s A Replycacion.” In Form and Reform: Reading Across the Fifteenth Century, ed. Shannon Gayk and Kathleen Tonry, The Ohio State University Press, 2011, pp. 133-58
“Fragments IV and V of the Canterbury Tales Do Not Exist.” The Chaucer Review 45.1, July 2010, pp. 1-31
“The Emergence of the Literary in John Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109.3, July 2010, pp. 322-48
“The Vatic Penitent: John Audelay’s Self-Representation.” In My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. Susanna Fein, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009, pp. 54-85
“Manuscript Studies, Literary Value, and the Object of Chaucer Studies.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30, 2008, pp. 1-37
“A Defense of Ornament: The Supplement of Literary Language and Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s ‘Catholics’ and ‘Mennonites.’” Mennonite Quarterly Review 82.2, January 2008, pp. 43-63
“Lydgate’s Laureate Pose.” In John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, pp. 36-60
“Laureates and Beggars in Fifteenth-Century English Poetry: The Case of George Ashby.” Speculum 79.3, July 2004, pp. 688-726
“Hoccleve and the Apprehension of Money.” Exemplaria 13.1, 2001 (winner of the 2003 Medieval Academy Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize), pp. 173-214
“The Allure of the Phantom Popet.” The Chaucer Newsletter 22.2, 2000 (winner of the 2000 New Chaucer Society Congress essay contest), p. 6
Annotated bibliography
“John Lydgate.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New York: Oxford University Press, 30 September 2014. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0164.xml?rskey=1HuHsk&result=88
Encyclopedia entries
In The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Newhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, and Katie Walter, Wiley-Blackwell, 2023: “Customhouse, London” (1025 words); “Wool Wharf” (302 words); and “Chaucer, Geoffrey: Works: Nineteenth-century editions of” (1065 words)
Book reviews
Samantha Katz Seal, Father Chaucer: Generating Authority in The Canterbury Tales. Forthcoming in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 122.2., 2023, pp. 279-82
Nicholas Perkins, The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England. Forthcoming in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 44, 2022, pp. 415-19
Elizabeth Scala, The Canterbury Tales Handbook. Speculum 96.3, 2021, pp. 881-82
Kenneth Bleeth, ed., Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-2005. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 119.3, 2020, pp. 419-21
Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life. Medievally Speaking, https://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2019/08/turner-chaucer-european-life.html, 2019, 1862 words
Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds., Chaucer and the Subversion of Form. Speculum 94.3, 2019, pp. 883-85
David Aers, Beyond Reformation: An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity. Mennonite Quarterly Review 92.3, 2018, pp. 474-76
Danila Sokolov, Renaissance Texts, Medieval Subjectivities: Rethinking Petrarchan Desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare. Speculum 93.3, 2018, pp. 912-14
Warren Ginsberg, Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22777, 2016, 2463 words
Anne Middleton, Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History. The Yearbook of Langland Studies 29, 2015, pp. 198-204
Mary C. Flannery, John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 113.2, 2014, pp. 253-55
Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne, and Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice, ed. Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35, 2013, pp. 387-93
Tison Pugh, An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer. The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17927, 2013, 1648 words
Antony J. Hasler, Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland: Allegories of Authority. Speculum 87.4, 2012, pp. 52-54
J. A. Burrow, The Poetry of Praise. Comparative Literature Studies 48.4, 2011, pp. 603-6
Jenni Nuttall, The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31, 2009, pp. 359-63
Samantha J. Rayner, Images of Kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian Contemporaries. The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/16823, 2009, 1873 words
Isabel Davis, Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages. Speculum 83.4, 2008, pp. 975-77
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds., Lydgate Matters. The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/16670, 2008, 1946 words
Nigel Mortimer, John Lydgate’s “Fall of Princes”: Narrative Tragedy in its Literary and Political Contexts. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 107.1, 2008, pp. 135-8
Katherine C. Little, Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29, 2007, pp. 514-17
Paul Strohm, Politique: Languages of Statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare. Modern Philology 104.4, 2007, pp. 570-4
Thomas Hoccleve, “My Compleinte” and Other Poems, ed. Roger Ellis, and Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Manuscripts, ed. J. A. Burrow and A. I. Doyle. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104.3, 2005, pp. 404-9
Katherine Kern, Where Such Unmaking Reigns. Mennonite Quarterly Review 79.3, 2005
Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England. Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 241.2, 2004, pp. 402-4
The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray, ed. Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101.4, 2002, pp. 571-3
Work in progress
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction (monograph; under contract with Routledge; in process)
PRESENTATIONS
Invited formal talks
“The Problem of Literary Value: A Panel Discussion” (book launch interview). The Fox Center for Humanistic Enquiry, Emory University, 5 September 2023. Video recording.
“The Problem of Canonicity.” Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 29 September 2022
“On Getting Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales off the Ground.” Writers and Scholars Series, Agnes Scott College, 21 October 2020
“Chaucer and Literary Value: Clerk, Merchant, Squire, Franklin.” Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series, Texas State University, 29 March 2018
“The Politics of Poetry: Or, What a Medieval Bureaucrat and Monk Have to Do with Robert Frost, Vietnam, Maya Angelou, and Richard Blanco.” Dabney Adams Hart Distinguished Humanities Lecture, Agnes Scott College, 9 October 2017
“The Ghosts of Canons Past, Present, and Future: The Problem of Literary Value and a Modest Proposal for Out-Flanking It.” A.C.M.E. Lecture, Agnes Scott College, 20 October 2016
“Putting Fragments IV and V Back Together.” National Endowment of the Humanities Canterbury Tales Summer Seminar, Kent, Ohio, 26 July 2016
“Sailing on the Roiling and Murky Waters of Literary Value.” Indiana University South Bend Dean’s Seminar, 16 November 2012
“Representing Chaucer: History, Value, and the Chaucer Edition.” University of Illinois Program in Medieval Studies, 29 October 2009
“What Did Chaucer Really Write?” Maple Scholars Research Banquet, Goshen College, 30 July 2009
“Laureates and Beggars: Poetry and Political Power.” Goshen College Convocation, 26 March 2007
Conference papers
“Cecily Chaumpaigne and the Profession of Criticism.” The Georgia Medieval Group, Atlanta, 4 November 2023
“The First Riverside Chaucer.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Durham, 14 July 2022
“All Poetics Is Transhistorical.” The Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, 10 March 2022
“Canterbury Tales E1213-44 and the Voice of the Merchant.” The Georgia Medieval Group, Atlanta, 3 November 2018
“Loving and Hating Canonicity.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Toronto, 11 July 2018
“Chaucer, Petrarch, and the ‘Clerk of Oxenford.’” The Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1 March 2018
“Who Tells the Merchant’s Tale?” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 12 May 2017
“Valuing Chaucer.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, London, 11 July 2016
“Merchant-Squire: Love, Fiction, and Literary Value.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Reykjavik, 18 July 2014
“What Hoccleve’s Series Tells Us about the Canterbury Tales.” The Canada Chaucer Seminar, Toronto, 12 April 2014
“Lydgate and Vietnam.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9 May 2013
“The Edition as Reification of Literary Value.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Portland, 26 July 2012
“Performance Studies and the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Siena, 19 July 2010
“Why Fragments IV and V of the Canterbury Tales Do Not Exist and How This Matters.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8 May 2009
“Ambiguous Evidence, Interpretation, and the Canterbury Tales ‘Occupation Group.’” The International Conference on Middle English, Cambridge, 26 July 2008
“The Devotional Literary: Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Swansea, 18 July 2008
“The Value of Chaucer.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 10 May 2008
“John the Blind Audelay: Politics and Trauma in Bodleian Library MS Douce 302.” The MLA Convention, Chicago, 27 December 2007
“Loke in this book”: John Audelay’s Langlandian Bibliobiography.” The International Piers Plowman Conference, Philadelphia, 19 May 2007
“Conception Is a Blessing: Marian Devotion, Heresy, and the Literary in Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady and Skelton’s A Replycacion.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11 May 2007
“A Defense of Ornament: Poetic language, the Female Body, and the Poetry of Julia Spicher Kasdorf.” Mennonite/s Writing Conference: Beyond Borders, 28 October 2006
“‘Yes, Virginia, there really is a Canterbury Tales’: An Apologia for New Critical Historicism.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 4 May 2006
“The Vatic Penitent: John Audelay’s Self-Representation.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 5 May 2005
“Christine de Pizan and the Beginning of the English Poetic Tradition.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9 May 2004
“The Name of the Author (or the Lack Thereof) in Fifteenth-Century English Poetry: ‘A Reproof to Lydgate.’” The MLA Convention, San Diego, 28 December 2003
“Laureate Failures: Power and Selfhood in the Poetry of Hawes, Barclay, and Skelton.” The International Medieval Congress, Leeds, U. K., 17 July 2003
“The Poet in the Poem: The Case of Alexander Barclay.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11 May 2003
“Wordsworth’s Affective Piety.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, Boulder, 20 July 2002
“Walking Backward: English Literary History and the Prologues of Stephen Hawes.” The Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, The University of the South, 13 April 2002
“The Monk of Bury: How and Why Lydgate Textualizes His Monastic Identity.” The MLA Convention, New Orleans, 30 December 2001
“Authorial Self-Naming in English Poetry, c. 800 – 1523.” The MLA Convention, Washington, 29 December 2000
“The ‘I’ of Laureate Lydgate.” The New Chaucer Society International Congress, London, 14 July 2000
“Lydgate’s Lyric Ego.” The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9 May 1999
“A Reconsideration of the Anglo-Saxon Widsith: About Time.” The Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, 17 April 1999
“Hoccleve, Money, and the Series.” The Arizona Center for Medieval Studies Conference, Tempe, 14 February 1998
“Wolfgang Iser and Chaucer: The Pros and Cons.” The Medieval Studies Graduate Colloquium, Yale University, 30 March 1996
Invited presentations
“Not Your Father’s Canon: Reading Chaucer and Shakespeare Today.” Co-presenter, with Charlotte Artese, Decatur Book Festival, 1 October 2020
“Troy Book Misbehaving.” Invited paper, The Huntington Library, for the conference “The Provocative Fifteenth Century,” 16 October 2015
“What the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Tells Us about Form and the Literary in Lydgate’s Troy Book.” Invited presentation, Yale University, for the research seminar “Form and the Literary in the Middle Ages,” 7 November 2014
“Fragments? What Fragments?” Invited paper, University of Notre Dame London Facility, for the conference “New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices,” 21 October 2011
“Criseyde’s Precursor: Dido, Emotion, and the Literary in the House of Fame.” Invited paper, Freie Universität Berlin, for the conference “Performing the Poetics of Passion: Troilus & Cressida / Troilus & Criseyde,” 14 May 2010
“The Prologues of Stephen Hawes.” Invited paper, The Yale Medieval Studies Colloquium, Yale University, 11 April 2001
“The Real Poet: Authorial Self-Representation between Chaucer and Wyatt.” Invited paper, The Yale Medieval Studies Colloquium, Yale University, 5 April 2000
“Aureate—and Laureate—Lydgate.” Invited Paper, The Yale Medieval-Renaissance Colloquium, Yale University, 2 December 1999
Invited class seminars and lectures
“The Squire’s Tale.” Invited class lecture, Texas State University, 29 March 2018
“Squire-Franklin.” Invited seminar, National Endowment of the Humanities Canterbury Tales Summer Seminar, Kent, Ohio, 27 July 2016
“The Axiological Logic of Chaucer’s House of Fame.” Invited seminar, University of Illinois Program in Medieval Studies, 30 October 2009
Panels and responses
Panel Participant, “What Does the Future Look Like for Single-Author Societies and What Will Their Place Be in the Study of Literature?” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, 10 November 2023
Panel Participant, Response to Donna Zuckerberg presentation on Not All Dead White Men. Agnes Scott College, 22 October 2020
Response to “Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Their Patrons” paper session. The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11 May 2018
Response to “The Decadent Fifteenth Century” paper session. The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 15 May 2015
Panel Participant, Forum for graduate students on the variety of faculty careers, University of Notre Dame, 14 November 2013
Panel participant, Forum for graduates students on teaching at small colleges, University of Notre Dame, 26 September 2007
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Trustee, New Chaucer Society, 2020-present; Howard Fund selection subcommittee, 2022, 2024; Co-Chair, bylaws subcommittee, 2020-present; Search Committee for Executive Director, 2022; Chair, Nominating Committee, 2023-2024
Executive Committee, Forum LLC Middle English, MLA, 2020-present; Secretary, 2022; Chair, 2023
Program Committee, International Conference on Medievalism, 2019
Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize Committee, The Medieval Academy of America, 2016-2019 (Chair, 2018-19)
Co-Chair, New Chaucer Society 2018 Congress Program Committee, 2016-2018
Nominating Committee, The New Chaucer Society, December 2015-2016
Program Committee and Program Committee Working Group, Medieval Academy of America 2015 Annual Meeting, 2013-2015
Evaluator of book and article submissions for Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, University of Exeter Press, Boydell & Brewer, Palgrave Macmillan, I.B. Tauris, PMLA, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, New Medieval Literatures, Exemplaria, The Chaucer Review, Viator, Review of English Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Journal of Medieval Religious Culture, Literature Compass, Modern Philology, New Literary History, Mennonite Quarterly Review
Session organizer for The New Chaucer Society International Congress: “Transtemporal Methodologies,” 2024 (with Claire Waters); “The Franklin and His Tale: Critique, Both, or Neither?,” “Action, Values, and Interpretation 1: Texts,” and Action, Values, and Interpretation 2: Theory,” 2022; “Future Forward,” 2021 (with Seeta Chaganti and Emily Steiner, for the NCS online expo); “The Squire and His Tale: ‘Ernest’ or ‘Game’?,” 2018; “Literary Value in 2016,” 2016; “The Teller and the Tale: Life Writing and The Canterbury Tales,” 2014; “Functions of the Chaucer Edition,” 2011; “From Crux to Theory,” 2006
Session organizer for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo: “Medieval English Literature and Africa, 2019 (with Renée Trilling);“The Language of Race in Medieval English Literature,” 2018 (with Renée Trilling); “Reconsidering Form and the Literary,” 2015 (with Catherine Sanok); “Hoccleve,” 2002; “The Idea of the Author in Fifteenth-Century English Literature,” 2001; and “Counsel and Counselors in Late Medieval English Writing,” 2001
Session organizer for Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, “The New Philology at Twenty-Five,” 2015; “The Literary beyond Form,” 2014 (with Catherine Sanok)
Session organizer for the MLA Convention: “Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature,” 2024 (with Claire Waters); “Medieval Rebellion and Present Insurrectionism,” 2023 (with Claire Waters and Ruen-chuan Ma); “Remote Middle English 1: Cultural and Textual Geographies” and “Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past,” 2022 (with Susan Nakely); “Saintly Women and Priestly Poets: The Fifteenth-Century English Poetry of Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, and John Audelay,” 2007; “Fifteenth-Century Literary Transgressions,” 2001; “Lydgate’s Aureate Style: Reassessing Its Literary and Historical Implications,” 1999
Co-organizer, with Catherine Sanok and Jessica Brantley, for “Form and the Literary in the Middle Ages,” a research seminar held at Yale University and sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Medieval Studies, and Yale English, 2014
Advisory Board, Center for Mennonite Writing, January 2009-present
Academic Advisor, Gale Literature Collections’ Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (John Audelay section), 2016
COURSES
Agnes Scott College
Gender, Sexuality, and the Canterbury Tales
History of the English Language
Arthurian Literature and Film
The Human and the Divine in World Literature
Perspectives on Literature: Theory and Method of Literary Inquiry
Leadership and Gender in the Young Adult Fantasy Novel
Indiana University South Bend
Professional Literary Scholarship (graduate methods course with Chaucer as primary text)
Stylistics (graduate course)
Senior Seminar: Late Medieval British Pseudo-Autobiographical Writing
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Literatures in English to 1600
History of the English Language (combined graduate/undergraduate course)
World Literary and Intellectual Traditions: Heroes in Ancient and Medieval World Literature
Literary and Intellectual Traditions: Imagining King Arthur
Elementary Composition
MA thesis director for two students
MA thesis committee member for eight students
University of Notre Dame
Ricardian Poetry (graduate course)
Goshen College
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Arthurian Literature and Film
British Literature to 1800
Critical Theory and Practice
Literature and Music (co-taught with Matthew Hill)
Introduction to Literature
Literature and Writing
Rhodes College
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Medieval English Autobiographical Writing
Arthurian Literature
Survey of British Literature I
Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing
Yale University
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (as assistant)
Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies (as assistant)
Milton (as assistant)
Problems in Cultural Criticism (postcolonial theory and literature; as assistant)
The European Literary Tradition (the epic from Homer to Joyce; as assistant)
Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking (as instructor)