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    Cornell University, PhD January, 2015—English Language and Literature with a graduate minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

    Queens College, CUNY, MA, 2009—English Literature

    Vassar College, BA, 2005—Medieval & Renaissance Studies

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      Publications

      “Noise, Sound-Play, and Langland’s Poetics of Lolling in the Time of Wyclif” Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2016) 165-200.

      “On Bells and Rebellion: The Auditory Imagination and Social Reform, Medieval and Modern” (for Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music, ed. Katharine Jager, forthcoming from Palgrave, 2019).

      “Soth and Sense: Language Problems and Affective Solutions in Anglo-Saxon Treatments of the Guthlac Legend” Viator 44 no. 3 (2013) 63-84.

      “Something From Nothing: Melancholy, Gossip, and Chaucer’s Poetics of Idling in the Book of the Duchess” The Chaucer Review 48 no. 2 (2013) 205-221.

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      World of Echo examines what it means to experience language as noise, showing how medieval thinkers recognized such experience as an important aspect of lay literacy and voice—one that resisted the power hierarchies between clergy and laity imposed through language.


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