Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, 2014.
- Dissertation: “Remapping Insularity: Geographic Imagination in Medieval English Romance”
- A.B. summa cum laude, English and American Literature and Language and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2007.
Academic Employment
- CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies, North Carolina State University, 2016–.
- Visiting Lecturer, University of Virginia, 2015–16.
- Postdoctoral Preceptor, University of Virginia, 2014–15.
Honors and Prizes
- Donald Howard Travel Scholarship, New Chaucer Society, 2016.
- English Department Nominee, CGS/ProQuest Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts. University of Virginia, 2015.
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013–14.
- James Southall Wilson Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2013.
- Summer Travel Award, Department of English, University of Virginia, 2013.
- Schallek Award, Medieval Academy and Richard III Society, 2012.
- Travel Award, Department of English, University of Virginia, 2012.
- Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for excellence in the honors thesis, Harvard University, 2007.
- Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 2007.
Publications
- Designer of Critical Apparatus Software for The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 9: The B-Version Archetype, edited by John Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, SEENET Series A.12 (Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts, 2014). http://piers.chass.ncsu.edu/texts/Bx.
- Review of CATView: The Colored and Aligned Texts Tool. Digital Philology 6.1 (Spring 2017): 163–66. doi:10.1353/dph.2017.0006.
Conferences and Presentations
- “Fictions of Possession: Exchanging the Immaterial in Amadace, Cleges, and Gawain.” New Chaucer Society. Toronto, scheduled for 2018.
- “Versioning, Bibliography, and the Evolving Digital Edition.” BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities. Madison, WI, scheduled for 2017.
- “The Networked Child and Romance Character.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2017.
- “>GET EXCALIBUR: Teaching Medieval Adventure with Text Adventure Games.” Roundtable, “Medieval Games and Pedagogy.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2017.
- “Bevis without Borders: Geography and Translation in an International Romance.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN, 2017.
- “Errare in Romance.” New Chaucer Society. London, 2016.
- “Distant Romance: Making Macrospace through Narrative.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2016.
- “Mapping Multitextual Geographies in Bevis of Hampton.” Roundtable on mapping medieval literature. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2016.
- “Textual Networks, Compilation, and the Problem of Medieval Genre.” (Re)Building Networks: A Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference. College Park, MD, 2015.
- “The Experience of Romance Places.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2015.
- “After Nations.” Roundtable, “Ye Nexte Generacioun: Young Scholars Look to the Next Fifty Years.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2015.
- “Virtual Editing and Piers Plowman.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2014.
- “The Blind Briton and the Book: Unsettling English History in the Man of Law’s Tale.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2012.
- “Inventing Place in Medieval English Romance.” Think Romance! Reconceptualizing a Medieval Genre: 32nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University. New York, NY, 2012.
- “‘Over the salte se til Engeland’: How Geography Means in Exile-and-Return Romances.” Graduate Presentation, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA, 2011.
- “Romance in the ‘West’: Reimagining Insular Space in King Horn.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, 2011.
- “Puns, Allegory, and the Limits of Language in Skelton’s Speke Parrot.” University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Conference. Charlottesville, VA, 2011.
- “Sacred Space and the English Town in the Wakefield Cycle.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN, 2009.
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught
- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Upper-level course for majors. North Carolina State University, 2017.
- King Arthur in Time. Seminar introduction to the major. University of Virginia, 2010, 2016.
- Love and Death in Medieval Literature (Medieval European Literature in Translation). Upper-level course for majors. University of Virginia, 2015.
- History of Literatures in English I: Beowulf to Paradise Lost. Discussion section for lecture courses taught by Bruce Holsinger and Gordon Braden. University of Virginia, 2008, 2012.
- History of Literatures in English II: Alexander Pope to Oscar Wilde. Discussion section for a lecture course taught by Michael Levenson and Stephen Cushman. University of Virginia, 2012.
- Writing and Critical Inquiry. Topics: Writing about Place (2015–2016), Holidays (2009, 2011, 2014), Aliens (2010, 2013), From Privacy to Piracy in a Digital Age (2011). University of Virginia.
- Academic and Professional Writing. Workshop of 8 advanced undergraduates pursuing independent projects. University of Virginia, 2009.
Guest Lectures
- Canterbury Tales: Introduction and General Prologue. Prof. Elizabeth Fowler. University of Virginia, 2011.
Other Teaching Experience
- Reading and Writing Skills Instructor, Summer Medical and Dental Education Program. Charlottesville, VA. 2013–2014.
Workshops and Professional Development
- Accepted participant. “Object to Image: Exploratory Workshop on Scripto-Spatial Data and Medieval Studies.” Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. Philadelphia, PA, 2016.
- Invited presenter. “ACCESS: Evolving Methods in Making Cultural Heritage Accessible.” Human/Ties: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Charlottesville, VA, 2016.
- Participant. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows Summer Seminar. Bryn Mawr, PA, 2016.
Professional Service
- Technical Editor, Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, 2016–.
- Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Medieval Colloquium, University of Virginia, 2009–2011.
- Medieval Area Representative, Graduate English Students Association, University of Virginia, 2008–2011.
Selected Technology Skills
Computer Languages
- XSLT, XQuery, XML (including TEI)
- JavaScript, JQuery
- HTML, CSS
- Python (basic), R (basic)
- Inform 7 (interactive fiction language)
Tools and Frameworks
- Version control: Git and SVN
- Jekyll
- Apache Cocoon
- eXist Database
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Medieval Academy of America
- New Chaucer Society
- Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
- Early English Text Society
Languages
- French (proficient)
- Old and Middle English
- Old and Middle French
- Latin