English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., UCLA, 2000
M. Phil., Cambridge University, 1994
A.B., Harvard University, 1992

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INTERESTS:

Old and Middle English literatures, manuscript studies, text/image relations, history of the book.

I am interested in the cultures of medieval reading as they are preserved in manuscripts. My new book, Reading in the Wilderness, shows that the format of a late-medieval miscellany reveals surprising connections between the private reading of a meditative lyric and the public performance of civic drama. Other projects in process address the illustrations of Chaucer’s “Complaint of Mars,” and the structuring relations of text and image in visionary writing from the Dream of the Rood to Julian of Norwich.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Reading in the Wilderness:  Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).

-- “Vision, Image, Text.” in 21st Century Approaches to Literature:  Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 315-34.
 
--“Mankind in a Year without Kings,” with Thomas Fulton, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.2 (2006):  319-52.

--“Images of the Vernacular in the Taymouth Hours,” English Manuscript Studies 10 (2001):  92-125.

--“The Iconography of the Utrecht Psalter and the Old English Descent into Hell,” Anglo-Saxon England 28 (1999):  43-63.  (Winner, Van Courtland Elliott Prize for 2001)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Major English Poets, Advanced Prose, Chaucer, Medieval Drama and Lyric, Medieval Women Writers and Readers, Introduction to Manuscript Study, Medieval Dream-Vision

GRADUATE COURSES: The Canterbury Tales, Teaching Practicum, Medieval Visionary Writing