Research and Publications

Research Interests

Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, medieval historiography, medieval regional culture.

Books

Regionalism and Identity in Medieval England (in preparation)

English Throughout the Ages (in preparation)

Essays

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“Frið and Fredom: Royal Forests and English Jurisprudence in La3amon’s Brut.” (in preparation)

“Service.” In Reading The Lord of the Rings, ed. Robert Eaglestone (London: Continuum, 2005), pp. 138-148.

“Animal Imagery and Oral Discourse in Havelok’s First Fight.” Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 311-327.

"The Æðelen of Engle: Constructing Ethnic and Regional Identities in La3amon's Brut." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16.1 (2004): 95-130.

"The Legend of Havelok the Dane and the Historiography of East Anglia." Studies in Philology 100:3 (2003): 245-277.

"Iron-Clad Evidence in Early Medieval Dialectology: Old English isern, isen, and iren." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 98:4 (1997): 371-390.

Reviews and Reports

Entries in The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, ed. Michael D.C. Drout (New York: Routledge, 2006).

Entries in the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. Brepols Publishers, 2004-2005.

Review of Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 10.2 (2004 for Fall 2001): 108-121.

“Anglo-Saxon Studies in North America.” Newsletter of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI) (Summer 2004): 6-7.

Recordings

“A Recitation of Cleanness.” The Chaucer Studio (Recorded at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 9-11 May 2003 in Kalamazoo, MI).