Areas of Specialty:

• Chaucer and Middle English literature
• History of the English language
• Medieval Arthurian literature
• European medieval literature and culture
• Old English

• Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• “Speculative Genealogies,” in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• “The Structure of Fate and the Devising of History in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004).
• “The Rise and Fall of the Great Vowel Shift?  The Changing Ideological Intersections of Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Literary History,” Representations 76 (2001).
• other articles and reviews in journals such as Speculum, The Medieval Review, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, and University of Toronto Quarterly.