Publications

Books

This Language, a River:  a History of English. With K. Aaron Smith.  Broadview, 2017.

A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers:  Cryptography and the History of Literacy. Co-edited with Katherine Ellison. Routledge, 2017.

“Inconceivable Beasts”:  The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript. With Asa Simon Mittman.  Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies/ Brepols,  2013.

Selected Articles and Chapters

“Colonialism:  Linguistic Accommodation and English Language Change.”  With K. Aaron Smith. In Teaching the History of English, edited by Colette Moore and Chris Palmer. MLA Approaches to Teaching, 2019.

“The Old English Saint Christopher.”  Translation and Critical Introduction.  In Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare,  Volume 2, edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel.  Arc Humanities Press, 2018.

“Introduction:  Ciphers and the Material History of Literacy.” With Katherine Ellison. In A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers:  Cryptography and the History of Literacy, co-edited with Katherine Ellison. Routledge, 2017.

“Keeping History:  Images, Texts, Ciphers and the Franks Casket.” With Asa Simon Mittman. In A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers:  Cryptography and the History of Literacy, co-edited with Katherine Ellison. Routledge, 2017.

 “Monstrous Iconography.” With Asa Simon Mittman.  In The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography. Ed.  Colum Hourihane. Routledge, 2016.

 “Locating the Devil ‘Her’:  ms Junius 11, page 3.”  With Asa Simon Mittman. Gesta 15 (2015).

“Ungefrægelicu deor:  Truth and the Wonders of the East.”  With Asa Simon Mittman.  Different Visions. 2 (2010).

“Anglo-Saxon Frames of Reference:  Framing the Real in the Wonders of the East.”  With Asa Simon Mittman.  Different Visions. 2 (2010).

“Monsters and the Exotic in Medieval England.” With Asa Simon Mittman.  In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.  Ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walter.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 677-706.

“‘If One Who Is Loved Is Not Present, A Letter May be Embraced Instead’:  Death and the Letter of Alexander to Aristotle.”  Journal of English and Germanic Philology.  109:1 (Jan. 2010).

“Monsters and the Exotic in Early Medieval England.” With Asa Simon Mittman.  Literature Compass.  5 (Dec. 2008).

“The Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East.”  With Asa Simon Mittman.  In Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture vol. 3.  Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

“Fighting in Public.”  With K. Aaron Smith.  Essay as part of an edited collection on teaching HEL.  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching15.2 (Fall 2008).

“‘As I Once Did with Grendel’:  Boasting and Nostalgia in Beowulf.”  Modern Philology103.1 (August 2005):  4-27.

“The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes.” Naked Before God:  Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England.  Ed. Benjamin Withers and Jonathan Wilcox.  Morgantown:  West Virginia University Press, 2003.

“Bloody Signs:  Circumcision and Pregnancy in the Old English Judith.” Exemplaria11.2 (1999):  285-306.

“Man-Eating Monsters and Ants as Big as Dogs.”  Animals and the Symbolic in Mediaeval Art and Literature.  Ed. Luuk Houwen. Groningen:  Egbert Forsten, 1997.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (open-access and community reviewed)

Translation, with Asa Simon Mittman.  “Lines 1531-1560.”  Beowulf By All. 2018.  Available at https://texttechnologies.stanford.edu.