• Middle English
• Critical Theory
• Linguistics
• Old English

PUBLICATIONS:

—   "The Mind, Perception, and the Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care,” Anglo-Saxon England 42 (2013): forthcoming.

—   “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.

INVITED LECTURE:

—  “Spiritual Secrecy and the Regulation of Secrets in Anglo-Saxon Monasticism,” Columbia University, Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (12 November 2012)

PAPERS DELIVERED:

—  “Imitation and Style: The Promise of Comparison in the Case of Aldhelm, ‘Aldhelm,’ and B.”
      48^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2013, forthcoming)
      Special Session: “New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature”

—  “Local Connections: Micro-Comparison and the Imitation of Aldhelm”
      “Connected Worlds: New Approaches Across Pre-modern Studies”
      International Comparative Studies Conf., Inst. of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (2013)

—  “Alia creatura, ut ukofb: Interpreting Riddles with Riddles in CUL Gg. 5. 35”
      EGA Colloquium, UC Berkeley (2012)

—   “To Erase: The Case of Chaucer’s Friar and Summoner” 
      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)

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.

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Spring, 2013

Fall, 2012