About
I am an Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University. I work on Chaucer’s reception of his Italian and classical sources, with a focus on how popular stories are translated and retold across national and temporal boundaries. I teach Chaucer at the graduate and undergraduate level, and also offer courses on Dante and Boccaccio in translation.
My book project, Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality and Erasure, argues that Chaucer relies on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio for their strategies of artful intertextuality: the very ways these authors not only promote but also mistranslate and erase the writings of their predecessors. By looking beyond Chaucer’s immediate literary models and considering how these authors themselves use and translate their sources, my work develops new ways of talking about a perennially difficult question, namely, how we codify literary influence in situations that lack overt textual borrowings. Education
University of Connecticut
Ph.D., English Literature, 2014
McGill University
M.A., English Literature, 2008
B.A., English Literature, magna cum laude, 2006 Publications
Edited Collections:
Betsy McCormick, Lynn Shutters, and Leah Schwebel, guest editors, “Looking Forward, Looking Back at the Legend of Good Women,” The Chaucer Review 52 (2017).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Who is Chaucer’s Trophee?” in Chaucer and Italian Culture, ed. Helen Fulton (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2019).
“What’s in Criseyde’s Book?” The Chaucer Review 54 (2019): 91-115. In press.
“Triumphing over Dante in Petrarch’s Trionfi,” Mediaevalia 39 (2018): 87-112.
“The Pagan Suicides: Augustine and Inferno 13,” Medium Aevum 87 (2018): 106-32.
“Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in the Legend of Lucrece,” The Chaucer Review 52 (2017): 29-45.
“The Legend of Thebes and Literary Patricide in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Statius,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 36 (2014): 139-68.
“Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the Clerk’s Tale,” The Chaucer Review 47 (2013): 274-99.
“’Simile Lordura,’ Altra Bolgia: Authorial Conflation in Inferno XXVI,” Dante Studies 13 (2012): 47-65.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Grisild(e), Grisildis,” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Newhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, and Katie Walter (Wiley-Blackwell, solicited, forthcoming). Projects
Book project: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality and Erasure
