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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
Essays
“Hybrid World Literature: Literary Culture and the Textual Machine.” Teaching Language and Literature Online, ed. Ian Lancashire. MLA Options For Teaching Series, forthcoming
“‘The Loadstarre of the English Language’: Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Construction of Modernity.”Textual Cultures, ed. Wayne Storey, forthcoming
“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," forthcoming
“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
Ed., "Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel." Special issue of English Language Notes, 46.2
“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)