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As a medievalist, I primarily work on the earliest English literature, though my interests extend to poetry and poetic theory from all periods and to broader questions about the history of hermeneutics. In my research and teaching, I ask what it meant to read and write a thousand years ago, when English was only just emerging as a written medium. I also have strong interests in enigmatic literature, schoolroom texts, theories of cognition, disability studies, and the reception of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in the Middle Ages. My current book project traces the role of distraction in the development of early medieval literature and literary theory, and an article drawn from this project is forthcoming in New Literary History.
Previously, my writing has appeared in Anglo-Saxon England, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, and Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society, and my article on the Old English Boethius was recently awarded the Paul E. Szarmach Prize for an outstanding first article in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. I am Co-Editor of The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England: The Consolation and its Afterlives (coming soon from ACMRS) and Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy (in preparation; under contract with Manchester University Press). In 2014 and 2016, I also co-convened two international conferences, Revisiting the Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages and the state-of-the-field Digital Britain: New Approaches to the Early Middle Ages. Originally from Virginia, I studied English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, summa cum laude, before completing my PhD in English at Harvard. I am now Assistant Professor of English at UCLA. In my free time, I love to cook, hike, and lurk around farmers markets. I am also a poet, with recent work in Colorado Review and Denver Quarterly. |
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