Personal Information

Education:
B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Teaching and Research Interests:
Medieval English and continental literature, paleography and manuscript studies, history of the English language, disability studies

Recent Publications:
"A River Runs Through It: Disability, Homosexuality, Queered/Disabled Discourse, and the Isle of Blandie in Bérinus," Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007.

"The Blind Beating the Blind: An Unidentified 'Game' in a Marginal Illustration of The Romance of Alexander, MS Bodley 264," The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (2007)

"'Luther's Pestiferous Virus': An Angry Jesuit Remaps The Nuremberg Chronicle." Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (2004): 103-119.

"Blindness, Discipline, and Reward: Louis IX and the Foundation of the Hospice des Quinze- Vingts." Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2002).

"'Blind' Jews and Blind Christians: Metaphorics of Marginalization in Medieval Europe." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (October 2002): 351-82

Books:
Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000.

Works-in-Progress:
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability, an examination of representations of blindness and blind people in literature, history, art history, and religious discourse in medieval England and France

Offices Held:
Co-director, Medieval Studies Center; Faculty Liaison, Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar; Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Early Book Society and Essays in Medieval Studies