Professional Statement
I study the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England (Old English and Anglo-Latin) with particular interest in medieval law and monasticism, exegesis and the history of hermeneutics (both medieval and modern), paleography and codicology, and critical theory. My dissertation explores the tensions between the widely held belief in divine omniscience and the human experience of secrecy and concealment in the law, monasticism, and literature of early medieval England. My article, "Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity," was recently published in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. And my "William Morris' 'Golden Wings' as a Poetic Response to the 'Delicate Sentiment' of Tennyson's 'Mariana'" recently appeared in Victorian Poetry.
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Specialties
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
PUBLICATIONS:
— “Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity,”
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41.2 (2011): 251-91. Download Article and Abstract
— “William Morris’s ‘Golden Wings’ as a Poetic Response to the ‘Delicate Sentiment’ of Tennyson’s ‘Mariana,’”
Victorian Poetry 49.3 (2011): 285-99. Download Article.
PAPERS DELIVERED:
— “To Erase: The Case of Chaucer’s Friar and Summoner” (Forthcoming)
Eighteenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR (2012)
Special Session: “Filler, Content, and the Interpretation of Medieval Books”
— “The Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care”
46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2011)
Special Session: “Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages”
— Opening Remarks: “On Reading in the Present: Sei Shōnagong and the Old English Deor”
“Reading the Middle Ages” International Medieval Studies Conf., UC Berkeley (2011)
— “Thoreau’s ‘Walking’: Towards a New Middle Age”
Berkeley-Stanford Conference, UC Berkeley (2010)
— “Suspicion, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Elene”
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Conference, Harvard University (2010)
— “IUDEX: Integrating Underlying Digital Editions eXperiment” (Poster)
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Memorial University, Newfoundland (2009)
— “Seized Secret: The Silence of the Stolen Slave in Ine’s 53rd Law”
Berkeley-Stanford Conference, Stanford University (2009)
— “The Stolen Being: An Inquiry into Slavery, Theft, and Testimony in Anglo-Saxon Law”
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU (2008)
— “Tracing Goscelin’s Spiritual Friendship: The Legacy of Late Anglo-Saxon Sherborne and Its Subversive Rules of Confraternity”
Medieval Association of the Pacific, UCLA (2007)
Founders’ Prize, Runner-up for best graduate student paper
— Opening Remarks: “On Friendship and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England”
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Rutgers University (2006)
— “Cor unum et anima una: The Symbolic Order of Friendship in Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity”
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Rutgers University (2006)
Current Research
DISSERTATION:
My dissertation, “Holding the Sacred: Discourses of Secrecy and Concealment in Early Medieval England (600-1100),” investigates how the pervasive belief in divine omniscience influenced Anglo-Saxon legal, monastic, and literary conceptions of secrecy and governed the human experience of concealment.