Specialization: Medieval Studies, Middle English Literature, Old French, Latin

Interests: Memory and Medieval Literature, Performance and Reading, Tristan Literary Tradition, Latin in Middle English Literature, Old French Literature

Dissertation:   Reinvention through memory and confession in Middle English religious and secular literature

Recent Publications:

“Character Memory and Reinvention of the Past in Béroul’s Roman de Tristan.” Forthcoming in Tristania 24 (2006).

“Un Héritage vertueux: présence, capacités, et caractère de la mère de Merlin.” L’Esplumeoir (Société Internationale des Amis de Merlin) no 3 (2004): 45-54.

“The Rules of Courtly Love: Andreas Capellanus and Malory’s Tristram.” Proceedings, National Conference on Undergraduate Research 15 (2001): CD-ROM.

Major Advisor: C. David Benson