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Special Journal Issue Edited

“New Readings of the Early Robin Hood Tradition.” Special Issue of The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (2024). Co-edited with Mikee Delony.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Seascape, Divine Power, and Megincraft in the Old Saxon Heliand.” The Explicator 83 no. 4.

“On Nothing: Tolkien, Ungoliant, and Anselmian Thought.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society 65.

“Healing Power and the Disabled Body in the Old Saxon Heliand.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124 no. 3 (2025): 259-69.

“Teaching Beowulf through its Sources and Analogues in the Undergraduate Survey.” Teaching “Beowulf”: Practical Approaches. Eds. Ophelia Hostetter and Larry Swain. Berlin: DeGruyter Press (2024): 115-24.

“Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, and ‘Lovecraftian’ Evil.” Mythlore 42 no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2024): 7-20.

“British Seafaring, Narrative Empathy, and Religious Instruction in the Middle English Patience.” Philological Quarterly 102 no. 1 (Winter 2023): 1-13.

“Tolkien, the Medieval Robin Hood, and the Matter of the Greenwood.” Tolkien Studies 19 no. 2 (2022): 71-84.

“Teaching the Ninth-Century Heliand in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 28 no. 1 (Spring 2021): 49-60.

“‘Gone, the Song of Gamelyn’: John Keats and the Medieval Robin Hood.” Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon. Eds. Leslie Coote and Alexander Kaufman. London: Routledge. (August 2018): 150-66.

“Joseph and the Name ‘Jesus’ in the Old Saxon Heliand.” Modern Philology 116 no. 1 (August 2018): 87-93.

“Historical Infanticide and the ‘Massacre of the Innocents’ in the Old Saxon Heliand.” Neophilologus 102 no. 2 (April 2018): 203-15.

“Anthropodermic Bibliopegy in the Early Modern Period.” Flaying in the Pre-modern World: Practice and Representation. Ed.Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: D.S. Brewer (February 2017): 366-83.

“On the Binding of the University of Memphis’ L’Idolatrie Huguenote.” Notes and Queries 62 no. 4 (Winter 2015): 589-91.

“Lovecraft, Fear, and the Medieval Body Frame.” Lovecraftian Proceedings 1 (2015): 125-34.

“Seascape and the Anglo-Saxon Body Frame.” Medieval Perspectives 28 (2013): 83-91.

Book Reviews

Review of Leonard Neidorf. The Art and Thought of the ‘Beowulf’ Poet. Speculum 99 no. 2 (April 2024): 608-609.

Review of Catherine E. Karkov, ed. Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 30 no. 1 (Spring 2023): 101-05.

Review of H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives, and Interviews on His Influence by Leverett Butts. Mythlore 38 no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2019): 60-62.

Review of Early Rymes of Robyn Hood by Thomas H. Ohlgren and Lister M. Matheson. Medieval Perspectives 29 (2014): 161-62.

Review of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction by John Gardner. Mythlore 32 no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2014): 173-75.

Forthcoming Publications

“Fishermen, Seafaring, and English Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Robin Hood’s Fishing.” Article accepted for publication in The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies.

“The Phonotactics of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft and ‘Unknowable’ Languages.” Article accepted for publication in Lovecraftian Proceedings.

Recent Presentations

“Divine Power and Speech Acts in the Old Saxon Heliand.” 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-10, 2025.

“Reading the Pearl-Poet Aloud (a Workshop). 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-10, 2025.

“The Medieval Roots of the Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (a Roundtable).” 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-10, 2025.

“The Phonotactics of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft and ‘Unknowable’ Languages.” 6th Biennial Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium, Providence, RI, August 15-18, 2024.

“The Languages of the Heliand (A Roundtable).” 59^th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-11, 2024.