Specializations
Medieval English Literature (esp. Middle English Literature); Early English Drama (up to 1642); Regional and Local Cultures
Courses Taught
ENGLISH 119 P: THE LITERATURE OF FANTASY---TOPIC: Rings of Power, or the Collaborative Writing of Modern Fantasy
ENGLISH 199 P: UNDERGRADUATE OPEN SEMINAR---TOPIC: Arthurian Literature from Past to Present
ENGLISH 202: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
ENGLISH 209: ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1798
ENGLISH 311 D: CHAUCER
ENGLISH 361 E: TOPICS IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE --TOPIC: Medieval and Early Tudor Drama
ENGLISH 396 (Honors): EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA, 1376-1576
ENGLISH 411: CHAUCER
ENGLISH 411 E: CHAUCER---TOPIC: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
ENGLISH 514 (grad. seminar): EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA, 1376-1576
Publications
Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 (forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press); "The Ground of Grace: Appropriating Monastic Space in the Chester Mystery Cycle" (forthcoming in Studies in Philology); "The Absent Triumphator in Robert Amery's 1610 Chester's Triumph in Honor of Her Prince" in Robert E. Stillman's Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2006)
Work in Progress: The Chester Whitsun Plays (an edition for the TEAMS Middle English Texts Series)
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