Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

2017    Ph.D, English Literature, Fordham University
                    
2008    M.A., English Literature, Clark University.

2006    B.A., English Literature, Westfield State University.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

2023-Present Associate Professor of English, Endicott College

2018-2023 Assistant Professor of English, Endicott College

2017-2018 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Fordham University

2014-2017    Teaching Associate, Fordham University
2013-2014    Director of the Writing Center, Fordham University, Westchester Campus
2012-2014    Teaching Fellow, Fordham University
2010-2012    Writing Center Tutor, Fordham University
2008-2010    Adjunct Professor, Clark University

PUBLICATIONS:

Harde Bodies: Knightly Subjectivity and Violent Selfhood in Late Medieval England (Brill, Forthcoming)

“Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales,” in Ethics in the Arthurian Legend, eds. Evelyn Meyer and Melissa Ridley Elmes. D. S. Brewer (2023).

“George R. R. Martin’s Muscular Medievalism: Masculinity, Violence, and Fantasy,” Studies in Medievalism 32 (2023)

"Bodies Hardened for War: Knighthood in Fifteenth-Century England," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 47.2 (2017).

"The Sword and the Scepter: Mordred, Arthur, and the Dual Roles of Kingship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure," Arthuriana 25.2 (2015).

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2023 Course Release, Endicott College

2021 Course Release, Endicott College

2020 Course Release, Endicott College

2019 Course Release, Endicott College

2015-2017  Centennial Scholarship, Fordham University

2016        Professional Development Grant, Fordham University                    

2016        Summer Graduate Assistantship, Fordham University                    

2014        Summer Presidential Scholar, Fordham University

2014        Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Fordham University                

2013        Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Fordham University                

2012-2014    Teaching Fellowship, Fordham University                           

2011        Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, Fordham University                

2010-2015    Presidential Scholarship, Fordham University

2010-2012    Graduate Assistantship, Fordham University                            

2007-2008    Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Clark University         

2006        Barbara A. Welsh Award for Academic Excellence, Westfield State University         

        
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:

Invited Talks

“What Happened to King Asclabor/Esclabor in Malory?” (Very) Minor Arthurian Characters: A Roundtable. 60th Annual International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2023.

“Pursuing Graduate Study in English,” English Department’s Spring Gathering, Westfield State University, April 18, 2019.

Interviews

“To Work Out Like a Knight, Try Donning Armor and Extolling Virtue.” Interview by Isaac Schultz. Atlas Obscura. June 5 2020

Panels Organized

2013    "'I just don't want to die without a few scars': Medieval 'Fight Clubs', Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)Order, Part II," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2012    "'I just don't want to die without a few scars': Medieval 'Fight Clubs', Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)Order," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.
        
2011    "Writing in a Material World," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

Papers Presented

2019 “Bruised, Bloody, and Broken: Wounded Knights in Malory’s Le Morte Darthure.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2017 “Humoral Theory: A Medieval Framework for Understanding War Trauma?” Global Cultures Conference in Honor of SunHee Kim Gertz, Clark University, Massachusetts.

2016    “’Out Brest the Blood with Stierne Stremes Rede’: Chaucer’s Bloody Romance in The Knight’s Tale,” 15th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain Conference, University of British Columbia.

2015    "Medieval Muscularity: The Form of the Knightly Male Body" International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2014    "'Doughty Men': The Male Body, Hardship, and Wounds in The Lord of the Rings," Tolkien Days Conference, The Ohio State University.

2013    "Monstrous Male Bodies and Violence: Sir Gowther and A Song of Ice and Fire" 
Game of Thrones Conference, Ohio State University.

2012    "Eliding Nationality, Effacing Homogeneity: Marcher Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Idaho State University.

2011    "False! Traitor!: The Marginalization of Mordred in the Alliterative Morte Arthure," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Endicott College

Critical Reading & Writing 1

Critical Reading & Writing 2

Introduction to Literature

Early British Literature

Early World Literature

Shakespeare

Other Worlds: Fantasy Literature

Science Fiction: From Galaxies Far Away

Fordham University

Composition 1    

Composition 2

Return from Avalon: King Arthur in the Middle Ages

Masculinities, Violence, and Medieval Literature

Other Worlds: 20th Century Fantasy Medievalisms

Clark University

Expository Writing

Tolkien: Master of Fantasy

SERVICE:

Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta

Reader, Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies, 2010-Present.

Reader, Rhetorikos: A Rose Hill Online Journal Celebrating Excellence in Student Writing, 2010-Present.

LANGUAGES:    

Old English (reading)
Middle English (reading)
Latin (reading)
French (reading)
Anglo Norman (reading)
Middle Welsh (reading)

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Medieval Academy of America

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

New Chaucer Society
BABEL
MEARCSTAPA
International Arthurian Society--North American Branch