About
I am an Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University. After completing an undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Chicago, I did the natural thing and completed an MA and a PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. My research tends to focus on attitudes towards language, especially in multilingual contexts, and on the ways that texts can foster community, even across great distances in time and space. I am especially interested in the ways that owners and readers of books continue to participate in the making of those books. My monograph, Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature, was published in 2017 by Routledge. Recent or ongoing projects include papers on psalm culture and translation in Anglo-Saxon England, early modern encounters with medieval texts, and the eleventh-century Encomium Emmae Reginae.
In addition to medieval literature in English and Latin, I also teach the history of the English language, English as a global language, and a course on sociolinguistics and literature, which is paired with a Biology course on language and the brain.
SPRING 2020 COURSES
EN 260 English as a Global Language
EN 312 Late Medieval Literature
EN 511/HM 503 Intro to Graduate Research and Writing via medieval literature
FALL 2019 COURSES:
EN 261 Sociolinguistics and Literature - linked with BL 136-51 The Biology of Language
EN 488 History of the English Language
SPRING 2019 COURSES:
EN 261 Sociolinguistics and Literature - linked with BL 136-51 The Biology of Language