late-Medieval literature and culture, Middle English alliterative verse, nationalism and empire, ecocriticism, literary history, Arthurian literature, Old French, biopolitics
“Of Cygnets, Exception, and Territory: Swan-Knights and Western Aristocratic Other-Lordliness” (essay)
Bio-Exceptionalism: Animals, Woodlands, and Territory in Medieval Romance (manuscript)
Selected Publications
“Alliterative Verse in Middle English.” Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Ed. Christopher Kleinhenz. Oxford University Press, April 17 2025.
“Alcohol, Community, and Chaucer’s Pardoner: Ale as a Populist Antidote to Alienating Avant-Gardism,” in Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism, ed. John A. Geck, Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022), pp. 341–362.
“Ennobling Centralization: Lancelot of the Laik and the Romance of Subjection,” The Mediaeval Journal 10.1 (2020): 59-79.
“Unstable Kinship: Trojanness, Treason, and Community in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” College Literature 40.2 (2013): 81-102.
Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History (Ohio State University Press, 2011) https://ohiostatepress.org/
"Cross-Channel Becomings-Animal: Primal Courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne." Exemplaria 21.4 (2009): 418-38.
"The Loneness of the Stalker: Poaching and Subjectivity in The Parlement of the Thre Ages." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 51.3 (2009): 263-93.
"Borderland Subversions: Anti-Imperialist Energies in The Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane." Speculum 84.3 (2009): 613-32.
"Holland as Howlat: Shadow Self and Borderland Homage in The Buke of the Howlat." Mediaevalia 29.2 (2008): 91-116.
"The Instructive Other Within: Secularized Jews in The Siege of Jerusalem." Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008), pp. 135-51.