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Having completed a project on the ways medieval English people thought about language, I am becoming interested in the representations of gender and gender violence in Later Middle English writings. As well, I study the alt-right's appropriation and mis-appropriation of medieval symbols and stories. I am starting a project on Incel discourse and toxic masculinity in medieval romance.

My broader research includes most Later Middle English writing, such as Chaucer, Malory, Margery Kempe, the cycle dramas, and medieval romances; as well as modern medievalist fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay.

Selected Publications

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• Twentieth Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences. Ashgate Press, 2010.
• Co-ed. with Jason Harris,听Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts听(Four Courts Press, 2007).
• 鈥淲hen the 鈥楨vent鈥� Happens: Teaching Geoffrey Chaucer鈥檚 鈥榃ife of Bath鈥檚 Tale鈥� in the context of the AV俱乐部 Dentistry Scandal.鈥� Dissonant Methods: Pedagogy against Disciplines. Ed. Kit Dobson and Ada Jaarsma. (Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 2018).
• 鈥淐ould Gollum Be Singing a Sonnet? The Poetic Project of The Lord of the Rings鈥� Tolkien Studies 14 (2017), 53-69.
• 鈥淭he Once and Future Childslayer: Guy Gavriel Kay鈥檚 Inversion of Malory鈥檚 Morte Darthur.鈥� Arthuriana. 25.2 (2015), 67-73.
• 鈥淲hen Polemic Trumps Poetry: Buried Medieval Poem(s) in the Protestant Print I Playne Piers.鈥� Renaissance Retrospections: Tudor Views of the Middle Ages. Ed. Sarah Kelen. Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 2013. 37-69.
• 听鈥淒isorienting Orientalism: Finding Saracens in Strange Places in Late Medieval English Manuscripts.鈥� Exemplaria 21.4, Winter 2009. 380-398.
• 鈥淎n Online Poetry Course (for Carol)鈥� in听Teaching Literature and Language Online, Ian Lancashire, ed. (Modern Language Association of America, 2009).
• 鈥淭utivillus and the 鈥楰yrkchaterars鈥�: Strategies of Control in the Middle Ages,鈥澨�Studies in Philology听102.4 (2005).
• 鈥溾�楢lum de glas鈥� or 鈥楢lymed glas鈥�? Manuscript Reading in Book III of the听House of Fame,鈥� The University of Toronto Quarterly听73.4 (2004).
• 鈥淢erlin鈥檚 Magical Writing,鈥澨�础谤迟丑耻谤颈补苍补听11:3 (2001).
• 鈥淭he Hanged Man: Lancelot and Guinevere in Malory鈥檚 Morte Darthur.鈥澨�British and American StudiesVII (2001).
• 鈥淪hepherds, Regents and Lecherous Widows: The Strategies of Power in Middle English Literature.鈥澨�The AnaChronist听(2000).

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