PhD, Medieval Studies, 2008, University of Toronto
MA, Medieval Studies, 2000, University of Toronto
BA, English and Linguistics with Highest Honors, 1999, University of Florida
Teaching
ENG 235 Critical Approaches to Literature
ENG 340 Survey of English Literature I
ENG 491 History of the English Language Online
ENG 744 Seminar in Early English Literature: Race and Nation in Early Modern England
ENG 312 Introduction to Shakespeare
UHC 410 Language and Power
Professional experience
Faculty Co-Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, Missouri State University chapter, International English Honor Society
Selected publications
“Ciceronian Ethos and Clerical Masculinity in the Regensburg Rhetorical Letters,” Florilegium 34 (2021). (DOI: 10.3138/flor-34.005 2021)
“Relational Performances and Audiences in the Prologue of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” in Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period, eds. John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives. (London: Routledge Press 2021).
“Ex Illo Tempore: Time and Mediation and the Ars Dictaminis in Letter 65 by Peter the Venerable,” Old Media and the Medieval Concept, eds. Stephen Yeager and Thoray Brylow (Montreal: Concordia University Press 2021), 121-141.
“Competition, Narrative, and Literary Copia in the Works of Boncompagno da Signa and Guido Faba,” Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures vol. 1 (2019), pp. 35-54.
"Dictators of Venus: Clerical Love Letters and Female Subjection in Troilus and Criseyde and the Rota Veneris." Studies in the Age of Chaucer, vol. 38, 2012, pp. 103-138.
"Dialogism in Hoccleve." The Oxford Handbook to Chaucer. Eds. Suzanne Conklin Akabari and James Simpson. Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 601-619. with Magda S.J. Hayton, eds. and trans.. Speculum futurorum temporum siue Pentachronon sancte Hildegardis (Mirror of Future Times or the Five Times of Saint Hildegard). Peeters Press, 2021.
“Venus.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Ed. Richard Newhauser. Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
Research and professional interests
Middle English literature
Medieval Latin literature
Pre-modern cultural and gender studies
History of rhetoric
Awards and honors
Provost’s Faculty Writing Fellow, MSU Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, 2020-2022