I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, specializing in late-medieval literary and historical writing, with particular emphasis on poetry, poetics, and the continuing influence of medieval literature in contemporary culture.
Current Research
Under Siege
UpcomingLiterary history of late-medieval perpetual war forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press
The Chaucer Lab
UpcomingInfrastructural history of twentieth-century Chaucer Studies in America
Latest Updates
Epistemologies of the Archive
Epistemologies of the Archive is now available from JMEMS! You can read my introduction open access here.
Under Siege available for pre-order!
Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late Medieval English Literature is now available for preorder from the University of Pennsylvania Press! It will be published in February 2027.
The Value of Humanities Degrees
For the Dallas Morning News, I wrote about what a new study on college earnings leaves out.
Thomas Hoccleve note published
My research into the identity of 'T.H.' in Hoccleve's Formulary has been published by Notes & Queries.
Literatures of the Hundred Years War reviewed
Anne Curry reviewed Literatures of the Hundred Years War in The Medieval Review.
Space City Medievaliasm
Final project events including public reading and events with Carl Phillips for Space City Medievalism.
Adam Pinkhurst Goes to Berwick?
A note introducing new evidence for the military service of the medieval archer in The Chaucer Review.