B.A. Georgetown University
Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Strange texts and smart students.

Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012

Student Government Association Overall Full-Time Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2012

Student Government Association School of Liberal Arts Faculty Member of the Year, 2007, 2009, & 2010

Articles:

"Critical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and 'The Prik of Conscience,'" Pedagogy 13.1 (forthcoming 2013).

"Women, Tales, and 'Talking Back' in 'Pore Caitif' and 'Dives and Pauper,'" Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations, ed. Nicole Rice (Brepols, forthcoming 2013).

"Enabled and Disabled 'Myndes' in 'The Prick of Conscience,'" Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya, ed. Seeta Chaganti (Fordham University Press, 2012), 72-94.

"Using Gullah as a Focal Point in an HEL Course," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 15.2 (2008), 55-69.

"Poverty, Dignity, and Lay Spirituality in 'Pore Caitif' and 'Jacob's Well,'" Medium Aevum (2008), 222-240.

"'Cross-Voiced' Assignments and the Critical 'I,'" Teaching Chaucer in the University , eds. Louise Sylvester and Gail Ashton (Palgrave, 2007), 65-80.

"Penitential Pedagogy in 'Jacob's Well',"  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27(University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) 213-37.

"Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge's Translation of Archbishop Thoresby's Injunctions," The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature, eds. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren (Palgrave, 2002), 39-58.

"Presumed Relevant: Feminism Taken for Granted in a Medievalist's Orals," Medieval Feminist Newsletter (Spring 1995), 18-19.

Reviews:

What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods (ed. Juanita Feros Ruys), Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Spring 2011), 250-2.

John Mirk's 'Festial': Orthodoxy, Lollardy, and the Common People, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (Fall 2007).

Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Mary C. Erler), Albion: The Journal of the North American Conference on British Studies 36 (Summer, 2003), 236-8.

Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580 (SunHee Kim Gertz), Albion: The Journal of the North American Conference on British Studies 34 (Summer, 2002), 286-8.





 

Late medieval religious literature and culture; gender studies and critical theory; questions of literacy, pedagogy, and education (medieval and modern); Chaucer; Christine de Pizan; Old English language and literature; modern representations of medieval life and texts; disability studies.