The Medieval Studies Institute

I am a scholar of late-medieval religious writing and culture. I also teach courses in poetry and poetics, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and service-learning. My first book, Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth Century England (Cambridge, 2010), focused on visual art, vernacular literature, and the rhetorics of religious reform in fifteenth-century England.

I am currently completing three books. The first, a book on "sacred instrumentality" in early England, considers the social, formal, and theological uses of the arma Christi in image and text from 8th century liturgical expressions to 18th century protestant hymns. The second book examines representations of ecological catastrophe and environmental apocalypticism in late medieval and early modern Europe. And finally, I am in the final stages of drafting a small book of personal essays on medieval holy places in the modern world, provisionally titled: "Saunter: Medieval Pilgrimages in Modern England."