Publications, Presentations, and Ongoing Research Projects
In my chapter on "Letters" in The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer, I argue that, in representing the material conditions of writing, many of Chaucer's texts problematize and give metatextual expression to authorial anxieties arising from communication that is not directly within the sender or the auditor’s control. This chapter pays special attention to the letters in Chaucer’s literary works as well as to the social and diplomatic circumstances that surrounded letter-writing and letter exchange.
In this presentation and conference paper delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium in 2025, I discuss the broader implications for community literacy related to the city-wide production of the York Corpus Christi Plays.
In this presentation and conference paper delivered at the V International Congress of the John Gower Society in 2023, I investigate how Gower's narrative imagines both the Mediterranean spaces of Apollonius of Tyre and the North Atlantic spaces of Richard’s England as thalassocracies–spaces of kingship that involve sea power as well as control over the sea as a connecting medium and network of communications
In this seminar paper, I discuss Shakespeare's representations of inks, dyes, and markings in Cymbeline, arguing they are repeatedly mentioned in the play in ways that associate the written word with the “stain” of transgression and mendacity. This connection has its roots in early modern ink-making practices as well as the circumstances surrounding their modes of representation and transmission within the play.