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Associate Professor of EnglishResearch and teaching interests
Medieval and early modern literature, especially Chaucer and 15th-century Chaucerians; the history of the book, especially early printing; the graphic novel
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997
M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991
B.A., Vassar College, 1987
Publications
Books
Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2008
Ed., Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2006
World Literatures: A Reader for English 203, the Online and Live-Lecture Hybrid Course. Pearson Publishing, 2005
Journal Issue Edited
Ed., "Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel." Special issue of English Language Notes, 46.2 (Fall/Winter 2008)
Essays
“Hybrid World Literature: Literary Culture and the Textual Machine.” Teaching Language and Literature Online, ed. Ian Lancashire. MLA Options For Teaching Series, 2009
“At Hector’s Tomb: Fifteenth-Century Literary History and Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida,” forthcoming
“Recursive Origins: Print History and Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2. ”The Middle Ages and the Age of Shakespeare, ed. John Watkins and Curtis Perry. Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2009
“‘The Loadstarre of the English Language’: Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Construction of Modernity.”Textual Cultures 2.2 (2008): 9-33
“The Archival Imagination: Steps Toward a Theory of Literary Reproduction,” English Language Notes 45.1 (2007): 79-92
With Justin Adcock, “Watermark.” Southern Quarterly 43 (2006): 109-18
“Following Caxton’s Trace” and “‘Onely imagined’: Vernacular Community and the English Press.” In Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing, ed. William Kuskin. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 1-31 and 199-240
“The Erasure of Labor: Hoccleve, Caxton, and the Information Age.” The Middle Ages at Work, ed. Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel. Palgrave, 2004, 229-60
“Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital, Print, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century.” New Medieval Literatures 3 (1999): 149-83
“Caxton’s Worthies Series: The Production of Literary Culture.” ELH 66 (1999): 511-51
Selected honors and awards
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2007-2008
College of Arts and Letters Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Southern Mississippi, 2005
Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, 2000-2001
Current projects
“Chaucer’s Afterlife” (essay for Palgrave Advances in Chaucer Studies, ed. Larry Scanlon)
Recursive Origins, a rereading of Spenser and Shakespeare in light of fifteenth-century literary culture (book under contract for Univ. of Notre Dame press)
“Graphiaology” (article under contract for Intermediality and Storytelling, eds. Marina
Grishakova and Marie-Laure Ryan, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter)