I am Professor of English at Boston College, where I teach and write about poetry and poetics. I am the author most recently of the poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and the scholarly monograph Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). My debut full-length poetry book is Cycle of Dreams (punctum press, forthcoming). I edit the Yearbook of Langland Studies with Alastair Bennett and Katharine Breen. My writing on literature, politics, and higher education appears in The Atlantic, Vox, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. At Boston College, I direct the English PhD program. In collaboration with my students, I am mapping Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and building a digital textbook for Middle English alliterative poetry. Among the courses I have taught at Boston College are “Chaucer and Gower,” “Game of Thrones: Medieval English Political Poetry,” “Studies in Poetry,” and “Introduction to Creative Writing.” I live in Brookline, Massachusetts with my wife and our two children.