Faculty Profiles

My research and teaching interests are primarily concerned with the literatures and cultures of the English Middle Ages, particularly writings (in English, Latin, and French) from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. I also work across trauma theory, book history, and postcolonial studies. 

I am currently at work on my first book project, Writing Under Duress: Trauma and Materiality in Early England, 1065-1250, which investigates the so-called "lost" period of English literary history -- the two-hundred-year aftermath of the Norman Conquest of 1066, when literatures in English were thought to have all but disappeared. Rather than working to combat claims of loss, as others working in this period have done, I embrace the richness of loss for all it can tell us about the textual and historical motivations of the post-Conquest English. I am also in the early stages of a second book-length project on lyrics found in the margins of multilingual manuscripts from twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. 

With Prof. Siobhain Bly Calkin (Carleton University), I edited a special topic issue of Exemplaria (37.1, 2025): "Retracing Trauma's Theories in Premodern Literature." Prior to joining Rutgers, I was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows.