About
I’m the Marketing Specialist at
Medieval Institute Publications at Western Michigan University, where I manage and implement marketing efforts, including our social media channels and blog, book launches and author events, book reviews, and other marketing campaigns. I also maintain and develop content for the websites of Medieval Institute Publications, the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies; manage digital files, rights, and distribution; handle review/exam/desk copy requests and reprint permissions; draft and issue contracts; and more.
I have worked as a freelance editor since 2008, providing copy editing, proofreading, and fact checking services to a variety of customers, both academic and trade.
Education
I graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Western Michigan University in 2021. In my dissertation, titled Movement and Meaning in Early Medieval England: The Kinesic Style of Old English Saints’ Lives, I examined portrayals of physical movement and stillness in Old English saints’ lives and argued that the authors of these texts advocated strongly for control, restraint, and deliberation in acts of bodily movement and stillness and portrayed bodily restraint as an integral part of sanctity.
I also have an M.A. in Medieval English Literatures from the University of York, UK, and a B.A. in Publishing Studies and Dance Performance from Illinois State University. My research often focuses on gender, the body, and sexuality in early medieval literature, particularly that of northwestern Europe, but I am also interested in Modernism, World War I poetry, medievalisms, bodies in literature, and women’s history and writing more generally. Publications
Book Chapters
- “The Dancing Girls in the Life of Saints Chrysanthus and Daria.” In Early Medieval English Women: A Florilegium. Edited by Emily Butler, Irina Dumitrescu, and Hilary E. Fox. London: Palgrave, forthcoming.
- “Pedagogy in the Digital Age.” In Practical Approaches to Teaching Beowulf. Edited by Larry Swain and Aaron Hostetter. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming.
- “Kinesic Analysis: A Theoretical Approach to Reading Bodily Movement in Literature.” In The Cursed Carolers in Context, edited by Lynneth Renberg and Bradley Phillis, 21–38. London: Routledge, 2021.
Refereed Journal Articles
Other Scholarship, Creative Work, and Performance
- Translator, lines 886–899. In Beowulf by All: Community Translation and Workbook. Edited by Elaine Treharne, Jean Abbott, and Mateusz Fafinski, 64. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2021.
- Contributor. “Book 5, Chapter 6: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.” July 11, 2019, on ARC: A Tolkien Podcast, produced by Charlie Lein and Pip Parker, podcast.
- Choreographer and dancer. “Visitatio.” Choral and dance performance presented by Early Music Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI, April 2018.
- Choreographer and dancer. “Cosmic Dance.” Choral and dance performance, presented by Early Music Michigan at the Mostly Medieval Theatre Festival, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.
- Choreographer. “Offerings.” Freespace Dance Festival, Elgin, IL, August 2013.
