Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994)

research interests

Primary: Anglo-Saxon literature and culture

Secondary: Old Norse literature, Middle English literature, history of the English language.

regularly-taught courses

• Introduction to Literature
• British Literature Survey I
• Grammar and Language
• Old English
• Norse Sagas
• May Session in York, England: Literature and Culture in a Medieval City (York, 700-1500)

recent publications

"Legalizing the Fall of Man," Medium Ævum 74 (2005): 205-220.

"Genre Indecision in Gunnlaugssaga Ormstungu," Scandinavian Studies 76 (2004): 21-32.

"Penitential Nakedness in the Old English Genesis," Naked before God, ed. Benjamin Withers and Jonathan Wilcox (West Virginia University Press, 2003) 257-74.

"The Wisdom Poem at the End of MS Junius 11," The Poems of MS Junius 11: Basic Readings, ed. R.M. Liuzza (New York : Routledge, 2002) 302-26.