Monograph
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Reviewed in Speculum, English Studies, British Journal of Educational Studies, Parergon, Anglia, The Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, The Medieval Review, Modern Philology, Peritia, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, The Year’s Work in English Studies.
Edited Journal Issues
Everyday Arts: Craft, Voice, Performance. Co-edited with Emma O’Loughlin Bérat. Special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum 57.1 (2021).
In Brief. Co-edited with Bruce Holsinger. Special issue of New Literary History 50.3 (2019).
Edited Books
Geschlecht macht Herrschaft – Interdisziplinäre Studien zu vormoderner Macht und Herrschaft. Co-edited with Andrea Stieldorf, Linda Dohmen, and Ludwig D. Morenz. Göttingen: Bonn University Press by V&R unipress, 2021.
Relations of Power: Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages. Co-edited with Emma O. Bérat and Rebecca Hardie. Göttingen: Bonn University Press by V&R unipress, 2021.
- Reviewed in H-Soz-Kult, Sehepunkte.
The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History. Co-edited with Eric Weiskott. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019.
- Reviewed in Modern Philology, Das Mittelalter, Anglia, The Medieval Review, Le Moyen Age.
Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016.
- Reviewed in Bitch Magazine, Glasgow Review of Books, The Progressive Populist, postmedieval, Anomaly, The Cresset
Journal Articles
“The Martyred Tongue: The Legendaries of Prudentius and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.” postmedieval, 3.8 (2017): 334–351.
“Beautiful Suffering and the Culpable Narrator in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.” The Chaucer Review 52.1 (2017): 106-123.
“The Borrower’s Sin in the Middle English ‘Judas’.” Anglia 131.4 (2013): 509–537.
“Bede’s Liberation Philology: Releasing the English Tongue.” PMLA 128.1 (2013): 40-56.
“Violence, Performance and Pedagogy in Ælfric Bata’s Colloquies.” Exemplaria 23.1 (2011): 67-91.
“The Grammar of Pain in Ælfric Bata’s Colloquies.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 45:3 (2009): 239-253.
Essays in Collections
“Charismatic Heroines in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.” Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur. Eds. Uwe Baumann, Marc Laureys, and Konrad Vössing. Göttingen: Bonn University Press by V&R unipress, 2022. 257-374.
“Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century.” With Carol Dana Lanham. A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America. 4th ed. Eds. James J. Murphy and Chris Thaiss. New York: Routledge, 2020.
“Beowulf and Andreas: intimate relations.” Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy. Eds. Erica Weaver and Daniel C. Remein. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 257-278.
“Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry.” The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History, edited by Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019. 215-236.
“Peter Abaelards neues Charisma und die Erinnerung an die Asketen der Antike.” Erinnerung. Studien zu Konstruktionen Persistenzen und gesellschaftlichem Wandel. Eds. Christoph Michels, Rozbeh Asmani, Clarissa Blume-Jung. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018. 241-270.
“Englischsprachige fiktionale Texte muslimischer Autorinnen. Möglichkeiten der Repräsentation.” Migration. Gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben im Wandel. Eds. Anne Friedrichs, Susanne L. Gössl, Elisa Hoven, Andrea U. Steinbicker. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018. 125-147.
“Literary Multilingualism in Everyday Life: The Case of Early Modern Vulgaria.” Das literarische Leben der Mehrsprachigkeit. Methodische Erkundungen, eds. Till Dembeck and Anne Uhrmacher. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2016. 95-111.
“Introduction.”Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. xiii-xxiii.
“Poems in Prison: The Survival Strategies of Romanian Political Prisoners.” Rumba Under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi, ed. Irina Dumitrescu. Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2016. 15-30.
“Pas de Philologie: On Playful Appropriation and the Anglo-Saxon Scholar.” Des nains ou des géants. Emprunter et créer au Moyen Âge, eds. Claude Andrault-Schmitt, Edina Bozoky, and Stephen Morrison. Culture et Société Médiévales, Brepols, 2015. 181-200.
“Verbal dueling.” Dragons in the Sky: English-Speaking Communities at the Close of the Millennia. Eds. Stuart Lee and Patrick W. Conner. Online book at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/dits/. 2002.
Shorter Pieces
“Slow Teaching with Gawain.” New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3.1 (2022): 105-110.
“The Demon of Distraction.” With Caleb Smith. Special supplement on “Posts from the Pandemic,” edited by Hank Scotch. Critical Inquiry 47.S2 (2021): S77-S81. (Originally published on the Critical Inquiry blog.)
“Epigram.” New Literary History 50.3 (2019): 375-379.
“Afterword.” With Mary Kate Hurley. Remembering the Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, edited by Brian O’Camb and Jay Gates. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 289-94.
“Ælfric Bata.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, eds. Robert Rouse and Siân Echard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 13-14.
“Solomon and Saturn.” Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, eds. Robert Rouse and Siân Echard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. 1738-40.
“The Practice of Dissent.” postmedieval FORUM. Ed. Holly Crocker. 2012.
Reviews
David K. Coley, Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2019. The Medieval Review 20.08.09.
Jennifer A. Jordan, Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Cultural History 8.2 (2019): 250-51.
Sarah Lynch, Medieval Pedagogical Writings: An Epitome. Leeds, UK: Kismet Press, 2018. The Medieval Review 19.03.10.
Aaron Hostetter, Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2017. Arthuriana 28.3 (2018): 115-6.
Allen J. Frantzen, Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2014. Cultural History 5.1 (2016): 105-107.
Nicholas Orme, ed., English School Exercises, 1420-1530. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013. Journal of Medieval Latin 25 (2015): 276-279.
László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Carella, eds. Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: Exploring the Vernacular. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012. Anglia 133.4 (2015): 759-762.
Cindy Ott, Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2012. Cultural History 3.2 (2014): 200-201.
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