Welcome to my digital portfolio and blog.

I am Associate Professor of English at Boston College. I’m interested in poetry and poetics, premodern England and its neighbors, the social implications of literature, and how we come to know what we think we know about the past.

I am Professor of English at Boston College, where I teach and write about poetry and poetics. I am the author of Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which won the 2018 English Association Beatrice White Prize. With…

Meter and Modernity in English Verse

My second monograph, Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2020 for 2021). The book is partly based on archival research I conducted into manuscripts of English political prophecy held by rare book libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2021, I gave a video interview to…

The Shapes of Early English Poetry

With Irina Dumitrescu, I edited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History (Medieval Institute Publications, 2019), number 51 in the series Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. The book is in honor of the retirement of our Yale University PhD adviser, Roberta Frank. A methodological sponsor of the project is Yale art historian George Kubler,…