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Education

Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, 2014.

Certificate, First Summer School on Christian Apocryphal Literature, Université de Strasbourg, June 24-27, 2012.

M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, 2009.

B.A., English, Houghton College, 2007.

Professional History

Associate Professor, English Department, Rhode Island College, 2020-Present.

Assistant Professor, English Department, Rhode Island College, 2015-2020.

Post-Doctoral Teaching Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 2014-2015.

Graduate Assistant and Instructor, Medieval Studies Program and Department of English, University of Connecticut, 2007-2014.

Books

Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible (Emeryville, CA: Rockridge Press, 2021).
Featured on the Bible and Beyond Podcast, hosted by Shirley Paulson, September 1, 2021; reviewed by Russell Potter, on Epistemophilia, July 4, 2021; and by James F. McGrath, on the Religion Prof blog at Patheos, July 20, 2021.

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary, Early Christian Apocrypha 8 (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019).
Featured on the ReligionProf Podcast, hosted by James F. McGrath, October 8, 2019; reviewed by Paul Foster, in The Expository Times 131.4 (2019): 175; J.K. Elliott, in Novum Testamentum 62 (2020): 219-225; reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner, in Religious Studies Review 47.4 (2022): 535; and Ally Kateusz, in Review of Biblical Literature (March 11, 2022).

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 30 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Reviewed by Rebecca A. Hardie, in Anglia 137 (2019): 485-88; Jonathan Secord-Davis, in The Medieval Review (September 9, 2019); Christopher A. Jones, in JEGP 119 (2020): 535-36; Natalie Whitaker, in Digital Philology 10 (2020): 158-61; Dario Bullitta, in Medieval Sermon Studies 65 (2021): 85-86; and Anthony C. Swindell, in Review of Biblical Literature (December 9, 2022).

Invited Contributions

“Pseudo-Bede,” forthcoming in the Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture project.

“Medieval Information Technologies in Bristol Manuscripts,” to be included in a catalogue of Bristol manuscripts, ed. Kathleen E. Kennedy (forthcoming).

“The Fifteen Signs before Judgment,” Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 2, ed. Richard Bauckham and James R. Davila (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, forthcoming 2025).

“The Medieval Social Network of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” The Material of Christian Apocrypha, ed. Janet Spittler and Matthew Calhoun (forthcoming).

“Ælfric’s Traditions about the Apostles and Media Networks,” Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honour of Charles D. Wright, ed. Stephanie Clark, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, and Shannon Godlove (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 41–68.

“The Eremitic Life of Mary Magdalene,” New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 3, ed. Tony Burke (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2023), 130-39.

“Genesis of the Digital Concept,” Old Media and the Medieval Concept, ed. Stephen Yeager and Thora Brylowe (Concordia: Concordia University Press, 2021), 31-53.

“The Life of Judas,” co-authored with Mari Mamyan, in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 2, ed. Tony Burke (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2020), 208-22.

“Miracles in Apocryphal Infancy Narratives” and “Catholic Homilies 1.10, Ælfric of Eynsham,” Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe, ed. Cameron Hunt McNabb (Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2020), 138-56.

“‘Omnis piger propheta est’: An Apocryphal Medieval Proverb,” The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone, ed. Lorenzo DiTommaso, Matthias Henze, and William Adler, Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 26 (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017), 510-21. [at Brill]

“Old English Apocrypha,” The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), 158-60. [at Wiley]

“‘Cherries at Command’: Preaching the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew in Anglo-Saxon England,” Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha, Proceedings from the 2015 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium, ed. Tony Burke (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017), 207-30.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Fragmens philosophiques: An Eighteenth-Century Clandestine Manuscript of Voltaire’s Apocrypha and Related Works,” The Library, forthcoming.

“Bede’s ‘Adesto, Christe, uocibus’ and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” Notes and Queries ns 69 (2022): 173-76.

“Translating the Traitor: A Medieval Life of Judas,” invited contribution to the More New Testament Apocrypha Series forum, Ancient Jew Review, April 14, 2021: open access here.

“A New Witness to the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew: A Sermon in Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare LXXIII,” Sacris Erudiri 59 (2020): 183-200. [at Brepols]

“Biblical Apocrypha as Medieval World Literature,” The Medieval Globe 6.2 (2020): 49-83.

“Versions of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew in Early England,” Philological Quarterly 99 (2020): 245-67.

“Apocrypha and Fictionality,” invited contribution to a forum on “Medieval Fictionalities,” New Literary History 51 (2020): 253-57.

“A History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early England,” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 48.3-4 (2019): 13-26.

“Modelling Medieval Hands: Practical OCR for Caroline Minuscule,” co-authored with Antonia Karaisl and Nick White, Digital Humanities Quarterly 13.1 (2019): open access here.

“Prosthesis: From Grammar to Medicine in the Earliest History of the Word,” Disability Studies Quarterly 38.4 (2018): open access here.

“The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, the Rule of the Master, and the Rule of Benedict,” Revue Bénédictine 128.2 (2018): 281-93. [Pre-publication PDF]

“The Fifteen Signs before Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: A Reassessment,” JEGP 117 (2018): 443-57.

“The Literary Contexts and Early Transmission of the Latin Life of Judas,” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 44 (2018): 60-76.

“Ælfric’s Genesis and Bede’s Commentarius in Genesim,” Medium Ævum 85 (2016): 208-16. [Pre-publication PDF]

“Psalm 151 in Anglo-Saxon England,” Review of English Studies n.s. 66 (2015): 805-21. [Pre-publication PDF]

“Teaching History of the English Language with the Blickling Homilies,” This Rough Magic (June 2015): open access here.

“A Handwritten Prayer in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Copy of Richard Hyrde’s Instruction of a Christen Woman,” Notes and Queries 62 (2015): 253-57. [Pre-publication PDF]

“Isidorian Influences in Ælfric’s Preface to Genesis,” English Studies 95 (2014): 357-66. [Pre-publication PDF]

“Project Report: Studying Judith in Anglo-Saxon England,” Old English Newsletter 45.1 (Spring 2014): open access here.

“The Expositio in epistolas Beati Pauli ex operibus S. Augustini by Florus in Strasbourg, BNU MS.0.309,” Revue Bénédictine 124.1 (2014): 109-13. [Pre-publication PDF]

“A Fragment of Colossians with Hiberno-Latin Glosses in St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395,” Sacris Erudiri 51 (2012): 233-56. [at Brepols]

“A Greco-Latin Numerical List in a St. Gall Fragment,” Manuscripta 56 (2012): 28-46. [PDF]

“‘Id est, crux Christi’: Tracing the Old English Motif of the Celestial Rood,” Anglo-Saxon England 40 (2011): 43-73. [PDF]

“Staffordshire Hoard Item Number 550, a Ward Against Evil,” Notes and Queries ns 58 (2011): 1-3. [PDF]

Digital Scholarship

Co-Director of Digital Research Center, Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture, 2014-Present.
Project Website and Repository, created and maintained 2020-Present.
Github repository, created and maintained July 2018-Present.
Project Wiki, created and maintained 2016-2018. (Disabled by Wikispaces in July 2018)

Entries in e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha, for the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (with periodic updates to keep entries current):
(Apocryphal) Epistle of Titus, August 2018.
Apostolic Histories (Virtutes apostolorum) (co-authored with Tony Burke), February 2021.
Eremitic Life of Mary Magdalene, November 2020.
Gelasian Decree, February 2023.
Gospel of Matthias, February 2023.
Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, March 2017.
Life of Judas, March 2017.
Nativity of Mary, October 2017.
Notes about the Places of the Holy Apostles, January 2023.
Notes about the Regions and Cities in which the Bodies of the Holy Apostles Rest, January 2023.
Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Pseudo-Marcellus) (co-authored with Tony Burke), August 2022.
Places in Which Each of the Apostles Lie, January 2023.
Dormition of the Virgin Transitus Latin W, December 2022.
Manuscript descriptions, 2017-Present.

Studying Judith in Anglo-Saxon England, hosted by University of Connecticut Scholars’ Collaborative, 2013: Omeka Archive (removed from server in 2018); Development Blog.

Reviews

Rediscovering the Marys: Maria, Mariamne, Miriam, ed. Mary Ann Beavis and Ally Kateusz (London, 2020). In The Journal of Theological Studies 73 (2022): 362-64.

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints, ed. and trans. Johanna Kramer, Hugh Magennis, and Robin Norris, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 63 (Cambridge, MA, 2020). In Speculum 97 (2022): 526-27.

Mary Dzon, The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia, PA, 2017). In Review of Biblical Studies, December 30, 2021.

Stephanie Clark, Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 26 (Toronto, 2018). In Speculum 95 (2020): 218-19.

David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature, 2^nd ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). In Currents in Teaching and Learning. 11.2 (February 2020): 108-10.

Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Gernot R. Wieland, ed. Greti Dinkova-Bruun and Tristan Major, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (Turnhout, 2017). In Speculum 93 (2018): 828-30.

M. R. Rambaran-Olm, John the Baptist’s Prayer or The Descent into Hell from the Exeter Book: Text, Translation and Critical Study, Anglo-Saxon Studies 21 (Cambridge, 2014). In Christianity & Literature 66 (2016): 162-65.

Samantha Zacher, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People (London, 2013). In JEGP 115 (2016): 401-3.

Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture, ed. Alice Jorgensen, Frances McCormack, and Jonathan Wilcox (Farnham, Surrey, 2015). In The Medieval Review, November 2015.

Review of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University, at Dissertation Reviews: Fresh From the Archives.

Anthems of Apocalypse: Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought, ed. Christopher Partridge, The Bible in the Modern World 42, Apocalypse and Popular Culture 4 (Sheffield, 2012). In Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception 3 (2013): 42-6, here.

Joyce Tally Lionarons, The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan: A Critical Study, Anglo-Saxon Studies 14 (Woodbridge, 2010). In Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies 7 (2011): here.

Don LoCicero, Superheroes and Gods: A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman (Jefferson, NC, 2007). In The Journal of Popular Culture 41 (2007): 543-5. [PDF]

Selected Public Scholarship

See a full list here.

“Aionomica, Rammahgon, and De sphaera mundi: Bibliographic Medievalism in Star Wars,” co-written with Dot Porter, on her blog, May 4, 2022.

“Stella Immanuel’s theories about the relationship between demons, illness and sex have a long history,” The Conversation, July 29, 2020.

“The Second Sex in the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” The Bible and Interpretation, April 2020.

Co-host, Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away video series, with Dot Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, YouTube, January 2019-December 2019.
Featured in Forbes, Space.com, and The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“Medieval Manuscripts in ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’,” Forces of Geek, September 13, 2019.

“Why far-right nationalists like Steve Bannon have embraced a Russian ideologue,” Washington Post Made By History, April 16, 2019.

“Medievalism in ‘The Last Jedi,'” Forces of Geek, December 22, 2017.

Contributor, History of Christianity collaborative blog, American Society of Church History, 2015-2016.

Contributor, Modern Medieval collaborative blog, 2012-2016.

Invited Media Appearances

Faith Adjacent (formerly Bible Binge) Fellowship Hall: Apocrypha Night, February 21, 2023; later released as a podcast episode, October 5, 2023.

Inside My Favorite Manuscript Podcast, hosted by Dot and Lindsey, January 17, 2023.

“Coffee with a Codex: Star Wars,” with Dot Porter, for the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 4, 2022.

Bible and Beyond Podcast, hosted by Shirley Paulson, September 1, 2021.

Piled High and Deep Podcast, hosted by Ted Conti, February 15, 2021.

ReligionProf Podcast, hosted by James F. McGrath, October 8, 2019.

In Preparation

Apocrypha, rev. ed., for the Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).
[Revision of the first edition, ed. Frederick M. Biggs (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007).]

Selected Awards and Fellowships

Faculty Scholarship and Development Major Grant, Rhode Island College, for “Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Digital Research Center,” 2022-2023.

Post-Tenure Sabbatical, Rhode Island College, Fall 2021.

Faculty Scholarship and Development Mini Grant, Rhode Island College, for “Classical Arabic Language Learning, Foundations & Intermediate Levels,” 2021-2022.

Faculty Scholarship and Development Major Grant, Rhode Island College, for “Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture Digital Research Center,” 2020-2021.

Faculty Scholarship and Development Major Grant, Rhode Island College, for “Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture Database Creation,” 2019-2020.

Faculty Scholarship and Development Mini Grant, Rhode Island College, to present at the 54^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019.

Betty M. Challgren Endowed Fund for the English Department Faculty’s Development & Research, Rhode Island College, Spring 2019.

Most Valuable Professor Award, Rhode Island College Athletics Department, Fall 2018.

Faculty Scholarship and Development Mini Grant, Rhode Island College, to present at the 53^rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funding for “Telling Medieval Stories” working group, to participate in Scholarly Storytelling: Compelling Research for an Engaged Public, Scholarly Communication Institute, November 5-9, 2017.

Faculty Research Grant, Rhode Island College, for “Analyzing Anglo-Saxon Preaching with Digital Tools,” 2017-2018.

Book Subvention Award, Medieval Academy of America, for Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, June 2017.

Publication Subvention, Rhode Island College, for Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, February 2017.

Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island College, to present at Seafaring: An Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the North Atlantic, University of Denver, Denver, CO, November 3-5, 2016.

Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island College, to present at the 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016.

Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, University of Tennessee, 2014-2015.

University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2013-2014.

Invited Presentations

Response to The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha, ed. Gerbern S. Oegema (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Virtual Book Review, the Enoch Seminar, March 17, 2022.

“Fictionality and the Protevangelium of James,” Primary Text Lab: Protevangelium of James, The Brane Collective, December 14, 2021.

“Data Visualization and Medieval Manuscripts: A Case Study of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” DePauw University, March 14, 2019.

“The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and its Neighbors: Networking Medieval Manuscripts,” Medieval Manuscripts Group, November 11, 2018.

“Reading Manuscripts from a Distance,” English Department Medieval Colloquium, Harvard University, November 16, 2017.

Selected Presentations (2015-Present)

“Philological Border-Crossing with Voltaire and Biblical Apocrypha,” roundtable presentation, 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1-13, 2023.

“A New Witness to the Virtutes apostolorum in Early England,” roundtable presentation, 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1-13, 2023.

“What Did a Frenchman Want with Apocrypha? Voltaire and the Republic of Apocryphal Letters,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 19-22, 2022.

“Revelation in Preaching Texts from Early England,” Through a Glass Darkly Annual Symposium on Apocalyptic VII, McGill University and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 14-16, 2022.

“A Medieval Composite Apocryphal Infancy Gospel: Madrid, Biblioteca nacional de España 9783,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 26-28, 2022.

“New Directions in Source Study?,” roundtable presentation, 57^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-14, 2022.

“Aionomica, Rammahgon, and De sphaera mundi: Bibliographic Medievalism in Star Wars,” co-presented with Dot Porter, Books on Screen: A Virtual Symposium, University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University, November 3, 2021.

“Apocalyptica as World Literature,” Through a Glass Darkly Annual Symposium on Apocalyptic VI, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, June 25-26, 2021.

“Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Students,” roundtable presentation, 56^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-15, 2021.

“The Fifteen Signs of Doomsday,” 45^th Annual European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska Omaha, October 2-3, 2020.

“Performative Networks: Tracing the Afterlives of Old English Preaching Texts,” 54^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019.

“Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England: Historiographic Currents,” 54^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019.

“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Digital Humanities but Were Afraid to Ask,” roundtable presenter, Department of English Brown Bag Lunch Series, Rhode Island College, February 20, 2019.

“The Medieval Social Network of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” Material of Christian Apocrypha Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, November 30-December 1, 2018.

“Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England Book Talk”, Graduate Student and Faculty Gathering, Department of English, Rhode Island College, October 17, 2018.

“The Afterlife of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew,” 53^rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018.

“Networks of Preaching in Anglo-Saxon England,” 48^th Annual Northeast Conference on British Studies, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, October 13-14, 2017.

“Old English Preaching Networks: Bodley 343 and Beyond,” The Old English Anonymous Homily: Sources – Composition – Variation – Digital Edition, Göttingen, June 30-July 1, 2017.

“Genesis of the Digital Concept,” Old Media and the Medieval Concept, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, June 5-7, 2017.

“Portable Network: An Abbot’s Books and their Transmission,” Seafaring: An Early Medieval Conference on the Islands of the North Atlantic, University of Denver, Denver, CO, November 3-5, 2016.

“Ælfric, Apostles, and Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016.

“Homiliaries, Apocrypha, and Preaching Networks in Anglo-Saxon England,” 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016.

“Putting a Finger on the Digital,” Digital Britain: New Approaches to the Early Middle Ages, Harvard University, Boston, MA, March 25-26, 2016.

“‘Cherries at command’: Preaching the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew in Anglo-Saxon England,” 2015 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium, York University, Toronto, Ontario, September 24-26, 2015.

“Source Study in a Digital Age,” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14-17, 2015.

“Compiling Biblical Exegesis: Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale 764,” 10th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop, The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 6-7, 2015.

Workshops Conducted & Attended

Center for Research and Creative Activity Faculty Best Practices Mini-Conference, Rhode Island College, November 1, 2019.

Co-Presenter (with Amity Reading), “Digital Humanities and Faculty-Student Research,” DePauw University, March 15, 2019.

Organizer & Participant, “Telling Medieval Stories” working group, at Scholarly Storytelling: Compelling Research for an Engaged Public, Scholarly Communication Institute, November 5-9, 2017.

“Manuscripts in a Sea of Data,” Medieval Studies Workshop for Secondary Educators, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA, April 8, 2016.

“Digital Tools on the Cheap: Finding the Right Resources,” NERCOMP Doing Digital Humanities on a Shoestring Budget Workshop, Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Norwood, MA, June 5, 2014.

“Text Analysis for Humanities Research,” Homer D. Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 10, 2014.

“Exploring Text Analysis Tools,” with Jennifer Lanzing, Homer D. Babbidge Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, December 12, 2013.

Teaching Experience

Rhode Island College

Introduction to Rhode Island College
First-Year Seminar: Star Wars and Theory
Career Readiness for Humanities Majors
Studies in Literature and Identity
Studies in Literature and Nation
Studies in Literature and the Canon
Studies in Literature and Genre
Literary Study: Analysis
Reading Literature and Culture
British Literature to 1700
Literature of Medieval Britain
Studies in British Literature to 1500: Arthurian Literature
Literatures of the World to 1500: Race in the Global Middle Ages
Medieval Cities (combined undergraduate & graduate, with summer study abroad component)
Shakespeare: The Histories and Comedies
Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances
Studies in the English Language: History of the English Language
Studies in the English Language: Old English
Seminar in Major Authors & Themes: Medieval Media (Senior Seminar)
Seminar in Major Authors & Themes: Medieval World Literature (Senior Seminar)
Seminar in Major Authors & Themes: Readings in the Vercelli Book (Senior Seminar)
Introduction to Graduate Study (Graduate Seminar)
English Topics in British Literature before 1660: Medieval Media (Graduate Seminar)
English Topics in British Literature before 1660: The Vercelli Book (Graduate Seminar)

Independent Studies:
Honors Theses in English
Readings in the Vercelli Book (Graduate)
MA Thesis in English (Graduate)

University of Tennessee

World Literature I: Ancient through Early Modern
Introduction to Old English
History of the English Language I (Graduate Seminar)
History of the English Language II (Graduate Seminar)
Old Norse (Graduate Independent Study)

University of Connecticut

Basic Writing
Seminar in Academic Writing
Seminar in Writing through Literature
Honors I: Literary Study through Reading and Research: The Bible and Medieval and Renaissance Adaptations

Guest Teaching

“Canon & Apocrypha,” The Bible as Literature, for Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University, April 6, 2022.
“Canon & Apocrypha,” Christian Traditions, for Lydia Walker, Barton College, February 16, 2022.
“Biblical Interpretation and the Middle Ages,” The Bible as Literature, for Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University, September 28, 2016.
“Manuscripts and Digital Tools,” Word and Image Graduate Seminar, for Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut, September 25, 2012.
Guest Lecturer, “Old English Homilies” and “The Bible in Anglo-Saxon England,” Monks, Monsters, and Manuscripts Seminar, for Mark LaCelle-Peterson, Houghton College, May 27-28, 2009.

Service to Rhode Island College

Co-Chair, Open Books – Open Minds Committee, Summer 2017-Present.
Coordinator, OBOM Student Mentors, Fall 2017-Spring 2018, Fall 2020, Spring 2021.
Organizer, OBOM Film Series, 2017-2020.
Co-Organizer, OBOM Student Conference, Fall 2016-Present.
Open Books – Open Minds Committee, Fall 2015-Present.
Interim Co-Chair, Open Books – Open Minds Committee, Fall 2016.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mission and Goals Committee, Fall 2023-Present.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Advocacy Committee, Fall 2023-Present.
Committee on Faculty Scholarship & Development, Fall 2017-Spring 2019, Summer 2020-Spring 2021.
Faculty Research Committee, Fall 2015-Spring 2016.

Service to Rhode Island College English Department

Director of Graduate Studies in English, beginning Spring 2024.
Department Advisory Committee, English Department, Fall 2018-Spring 2019, Fall 2022-Spring 2023.
Student Outreach Committee, English Department, Fall 2017-Spring 2018, Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Fall 2022-Present. (Chair Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Fall 2022-Fall 2023)
Graduate Committee, English Department, Fall 2016-Spring 2017, Fall 2020-Spring 2021, Fall 2022-Present. (Chair Spring 2024)
Honors and Scholarships Committee, English Department, Spring 2022.
Special Events and Student Outreach Committee, English Department, Fall 2020-Spring 2021, Spring 2022. (Chair, Fall 2020-Spring 2021)
Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum and Instruction, English Department, Fall 2019-Spring 2020.
Professional Writing Concentration Ad Hoc Committee, English Department, Fall 2018-Fall 2019.
General Education in English Committee, English Department, Fall 2017-Spring 2019. (Chair, Spring 2018-Spring 2019)
Composition Committee, English Department, Fall 2016-Spring 2017.
Secondary Education Portfolio Reading Committee, English Department, Fall 2016.
Colloquium and Special Events Committee, English Department, Fall 2015-Spring 2016.

Professional Service (2015-Present)

Editorial Board, Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture, 2016-Present.
Director of Project, 2022-Present.
Co-Director of the Digital Research Center, 2014-2022.

President, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature, 2021-2023.
Vice-President (President Elect), 2018-2021.

Reader & Reviewer:
Manchester University Press
Cambridge University Press
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Digital Philology
The Medieval Globe
Journal of Early Christian Studies
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
postmedieval
Programming Historian
Review of English Studies
Viator

Organizer, “Apocryphilia (1 & 2),” sessions sponsored by the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature, 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-11, 2024.

National Endowment for the Humanities grants review panelist, spring 2018, spring 2020.

Organizer, “Putting Women in the Pulpit,” roundtable sponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics, 54^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019.

Organizer, “Preach It, Sister!,” roundtable sponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics, 53^rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018.

Organizer, “Storytelling for Medievalists” working group, Scholarly Storytelling: Compelling Research for an Engaged Public, Scholarly Communication Institute, November 5-9, 2017.

Organizer, “Preaching Texts in England: Homiletics and Beyond,” panel sponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics, 51^st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2016.

Organizer, “Reforming Homiletics and the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture,” panel sponsored by the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics and Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, July 6-9, 2015.

Languages and Skills

Reading knowledge of Old English, Old Norse, Latin, Biblical (Koine) Greek, French, and Geʽez
Reading and speaking knowledge of Spanish
Knowledge of WordPress, Omeka, Dreamweaver, HTML, XML/TEI and R

Professional Associations

Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association
North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature
Sources of Old English and Anglo-Latin Literary Culture
Viking Society for Northern Research