Research Interests

Medieval literature and culture, book history, miscellany manuscripts, compilation, Middle English poetry, Anglo-Latin poetry, theories of genre, anonymous literature, theories of authorship, medievalism, speculative fiction, analog gaming, game design.

Professional Appointments

The University of Chicago

Writing Specialist, College Writing Program (September 2021 – Present)
Humanities Core Sequence: Human Being and Citizen

Education

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, August 2021

Dissertation: How to Read a Medieval Book: Recomposing Bodley 851

Supervisors: Jessica Rosenfeld, David Lawton, Christian Schneider, Michelle Karnes

Certificate in Early Modern Studies, 2019

M.A. English and Comparative literature, WashU, 2017

Publications

Books and Volumes

Manuscript Meaning: Making MS Bodley 851
Boydell and Brewer (forthcoming).

Co-editor, with Arthur Bahr and Zachary Hines, Metaphors of Compilation. Special issue of English Language Notes (forthcoming, Spring 2026).

Peer Reviewed Articles

“Michael of Cornwall’s Second Invective Against Henry of Avranches,” with Paul Vinhage. Journal of Medieval Latin (forthcoming, 2024).

“Michael of Cornwall’s First Invective Against Henry of Avranches,” with Paul Vinhage. Journal of Medieval Latin 33 (2023): 17-56.

“Wicked Wives and the Insatiable Virgin: Reading the Codicological Unconscious in a Fragment of MS Bodley 851.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 193-232. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/102/article/872794

“Bookish Brains and Visionary Learning in the Apocalypsis goliae episcopi.” ELH 89, no. 1 (2022), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2022.0000.

“Poetics of Purgation in Seamus Heaney’s ‘Station Island’ Sequence,” Philological Quarterly 101, no. 1-2 (2022): 111-133. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A713671334/LitRC

Creative

Exemplar. A tabletop board game structured around late-medieval manuscript compilation (Under review). Available for playtesting: https://towergrovegames.com/blog/please-playtest-exemplar/

Works in progress

Book Projects

Codicological Categories in Medieval England

Board Games as Literature: Agency, Imagination, and the Ludic Text (edited collection)

Articles

“Michael of Cornwall’s Third Invective Against Henry of Avranches,” with Paul Vinhage.

“Goliardic Networks: Circulation and Influence of Anglo-Latin Poetry in Fourteenth-Century England”

“Marguerite Porete’s Bookish Imagination” (In Preparation)

“Revisiting the Production of the Z-text of Piers Plowman” (In Preparation)

“Memories of the Global Present: Medievalism, Imagination, and Civilization in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun” (In Preparation)

“Reading Much, Forgetting More: The Afterlifes of the Apocalypsis goliae episcopi in Print and Translation.” (In Preparation)

Creative

Purgatory’s Ponzi. A tabletop board game that uses prayer as currency, inspired by Dante’s Purgatorio.

Papers Presented

(Session Organizer) with Zachary Hines. “Postmedieval Collections and Compilations.” Congress of the New Chaucer Society. July 2024. Pasadena, CA.

“Heaven’s Currency: Prayer, Debt, and Value in Purgatorio and the House of Fame.” Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Panel: Debt and Indebtedness I: Indebted Communities. July 2024. Pasadena, CA.

“Speculative Medievalisms in A Memory Called Empire.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Panel: Science Fiction Medievalisms (3): Complex Readings. May 2025. Kalamazoo, MI.

(Sub-theme Organizer) “The Craft of Self.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. April 2024. Sewanee, TN.

“Plagiarism and Personhood in Michael of Cornwall’s Invectives against Henry of Avranches.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Panel: Community Identity in Literature. April 2024. Sewanee, TN.

“Examining Variance without Variants: Bodley 851 and the Early Circulation of the C-Text of Piers Plowman.” Meeting of the International Piers Plowman Society. Panel: The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman. July 2023. London, U.K. [paper withdrawn for lack of funding]

“Abstraction and Exemplarity in Medieval-themed Board Games.”
International Congress on Medieval Studies. Panel: Games and Medievalism II: Reading Games in Medieval Culture. May, 2023. Kalamazoo, MI.

“Walter Map’s Piers Plowman,” Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Panel: Between the Lines and Margins. Originally July 2020, postponed to July 2022 due to SARS-CoV-2. Durham, U.K.

“One Scribe, Two Texts, and a Missing Quire at the Center of Bodley 851,” Organizer and panelist. International Medieval Congress. July 2020. Leeds, U.K. Panel: Reading Medieval Miscellanies. Cancelled due to SARS-CoV-2.

“Writing Brains, Reading Memories in the Apocalypsis Goliae Episcopi,” English Dept. Graduate Colloquium, Washington University. April 2019. St. Louis, MO.

“That which we would otherwise call the Z-text of Piers Plowman,” Meeting of the International Piers Plowman Society. Panel: Editing Scribal Texts I. April 2019. Miami, FL.

“Apocalypsis Libri Impressi,” Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Panel: The Print Devolution. July 2018. Toronto, ON.

“‘What quill of scribe, what voice, what tongue!’: Forgetting Heaven in the ‘Apocalypsis Goliae,’” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Panel: Imagining the Afterlife. May 2018. Kalamazoo, MI.

“A Coincidence of Form: Manuscript Formalisms and the Tyranny of the Text,” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Panel: Middle English Devotional Literature. May 2017. Kalamazoo, MI.

Teaching Experience

The University of Chicago

Writing Specialist, September 2021 - Present
Humanities Core Sequence: Human Being and Citizen

Washington University in St. Louis

Instructor, Fall 2020. Imagining the Medieval in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction

Co-Instructor, with David Lawton, Fall 2018. Literature in English: Early Texts and Contexts

Teaching Assistant, with David Lawton, Spring 2018. Voice, Language and Power: Late Medieval Religious Writing

Instructor, Fall 2016 and Fall 2017. Lectures from Wolfram Schmidgen. Writing I: What is Justice?

Research and Editorial Positions

Washington University in St. Louis

Chaucer Encyclopedia. Research Assistant for Jessica Rosenfeld.

Exemplaria vol. 31.3 (2019). Editorial Assistant for Jessica Rosenfeld.

The Norton Chaucer (2019). Proofreader and Copy Editor for David Lawton.

Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (2018). Proofreader and Copy Editor for Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld.

Academic Service

University of Chicago

Resident Head, Hoover House (2023-present)

Co-convener, Midwest Middle English Reading Group

Washington University in St. Louis

Co-convener, Medieval Colloquium Writing Group

Co-convener, Reading Group on Form and Formalism

Co-convener, Latin Reading Group: Walter Map