I am a scholar of medieval English literature, specializing in Old English and with broader interests in poetics, literary form, and the relationship between aesthetics and instruction. My work is interested also in the ways disciplinary history can offer fresh tools for literary inquiry, and in new comparative methodologies for close reading through and beyond disciplinary bounds. My current book project interweaves the formal strategies of Old English didactic poetry with Tang Chinese verse and later imperial commentary, to deepen the questions we can ask about learning and aesthetic experience in early medieval England. I received my Master’s degree in Medieval English Literature from the University of Oxford, and my PhD in English from Yale.
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Assistant Professor
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“Tender Beginnings in the Exeter Book Riddles,” in Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture. Eds. Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2018.
