About
I am an Assistant Professor of English at Rowan University. My teaching and research interests focus on medieval histories of global contact and the literature they engendered; the formation of racial ideologies in the Middle Ages; and contemporary appropriations of the medieval past. I am currently working on my first book, Exotic Allies: Mongols and Racial Fantasy in the Literature of Medieval England. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. and B.A. from Mills College, and I’m a former community college student from the San Francisco Bay Area. Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Pennsylvania, 2018
M.A. in English and American Literature, Mills College, 2009
B.A. in English/Creative Writing and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Mills College, 2007 Publications
Scholarly Writing
- “The Mongol Princess of Tars: Global Relations and Racial Formation in The King of Tars, c. 1330.” Exemplaria 31.3 (2019). Link here.
- “Race and Vulnerability: Mongols in Thirteenth-Century Ethnographic Travel Writing.” Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality, eds. Debra Blumenthal, Kathryn Reyerson, Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher, and Ann Zimo. Routledge. 2020.
- “Becoming Postmedieval: The Stakes of the Global Middle Ages.” Special anniversary issue: Race, Revulsion, and Revolution, eds. Mary Rambaran-Olm, Bre Leake, and Micah Goodrich. postmedieval 11.2 (2020).
- “Chaucer, Geoffrey: Teaching in Classroom.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Newhauser. Wiley. (2023)
- “Teaching Race in the Arthurian Literature Classroom,” with co-author Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh. Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, ed. Dorsey Armstrong. Modern Language Association. Forthcoming
Public Writing
- “Public Medievalism and the Rigor of Anti-Racist Critique.” In the Middle. April 4, 2019. Link here.
- “A White Canon in a World of Color.” Medievalists of Color. March 26, 2019. Link here.
- “Chaucer and Humanitarian Activism in Refugee Tales.” Public Books. April 24, 2018. Link here.
- “White Nationalism and the Ethics of Medieval Studies.” In the Middle. December 5, 2016. Link here
