Medieval

Linguistics

Education

• PhD in English, Cornell University
• AB and MA in English, Stanford University
• BS in Mathematics, Stanford University

Select Publications

• Co-authored with Osamu Shimomura and John Brinegar. Luminous Pursuit: Jellyfish, GFP, and the Unforeseen Path to the Nobel Prize. Singapore: World Scientific, 2017.
• Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• “The Walking Dead in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.” The Chaucer Review 48.1 (2013): 1–37.
• “Remembering in Circles: The Wife’s Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory.” Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill.  Ed. Charles D. Wright et al. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2007. 113–29.
• “Visualizing Judgment: Illumination in the Old English Christ III.” Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross. Ed. Thomas N. Hall et al. Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2002. 27–49.

Courses

• Early & Medieval Mythology
• Chaucer
• History of the English Language
• Medieval Literature: Old English to Middle English

Awards

• Fellowship, Humanities Research Center (Spring 2015, VCU)
• Student Organization Advisor of the Year, for student organization Literati (2009, VCU)
• College of Humanities and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award (2008, VCU)
• Fulbright and Icelandic Government Grants (1991–92, University of Iceland)