Teaching interests: medieval literature; Chaucer; Old and Middle English; romance; the history of English; theories of the novel
Research interests: Middle English; Chaucer; Robin Hood; popular romance; the early history of capitalism; psychoanalysis and literature
Selected Publications:
Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance (U of Notre Dame P, 2016)
“’There is No Date: The Middle English Pearl and Its Work.” Glossator 9 (Spring 2015): 179-197.
“’What shall these bowes do?’: Violence and the Gift in A Gest of Robyn Hode,” Exemplaria 24 (Fall 2013): 238-59.
“Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Politics of Distinction,” Philological Quarterly 89 (Spring 2010): 159-84.