About
I work on all things apocrypha in Medieval religious literature, taking a comparative philological approach. My book, Translating Hell (under contract with Manchester UP), tracks the transmission of infernal apocrypha (especially the Gospel of Nicodemus and Vision of St. Paul) across Old English, Old Norse, Middle Welsh, and Old/Middle Irish texts and translations. My idea of a good time is scrutinizing vernacular translations of theologically-oriented works, and thinking about the history of emotions and temporality. My favorite sport is etymology. I’m also into Ghost Stories (especially those of M.R. James), Horror, Medievalism (Tolkien and Lewis), and Vikings. Education
Ph.D., English Literature Indiana University, Bloomington, 2019; certificate in Germanic Philology
M.A., English Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2015
Post-Bac, Classical Lang & Lit (Latin and Greek), Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2012
B.A., Anthropology & Linguistics, Miami University, 2011 Publications
“A Glimpse of Hell: Artistic Inspiration and The Penitence of Jamnes and Mambres in Old English,” in The Material of Christian Apocrypha, (ed.) Janet E. Spittler (Equinox). (Forthcoming)
“The Questions of John,” ed. and trans., in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, v. III, ed. Tony Burke (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans). (Forthcoming)
“Adventures in the Past: Skyrim and Role-Playing Games in the Medievalist’s Classroom,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 29 (2022): 75-94.
“Of Scopas and Scribes: Reshaping Oral-Formulaic Theory in Old English Literary Studies,” in Weathered Words, ed. Frog and William Lamb (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021): 49-79.
“A New Revelation: the Middle Welsh Erythraean Sibyl,” North American Journal of Celtic Studies 5 (2021): 30-48.
“The Legend of the Holy Rood,” ed. and trans., in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, v. II, ed. Tony Burke and Brent Landau (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2020): 145-159.
“An Old English Prose Fragment of Christ’s Letter to Abgar in the Lilly Library,” Notes and Queries 66 (2019): 173-176.
“Snared by the Beasts of Battle: Fear as Hermeneutic Guide in the Old English Exodus,” Philological Quarterly 97.1 (2018): 1-25.
“Heaven and Hell in the Garden of Eden: the Transmissions of the Ystoria Adda in Wales,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 37 (2017), 105-123.
“The Manuscript of M.R. James’s ‘The Ash-Tree,'” (w/ Patrick J. Murphy and Fred Porcheddu) Notes and Queries 61 (2014): 583-85.
Book Reviews
The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank, University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 265. $52. in The Medieval Review (forthcoming).
Apocrypha Hiberniae II: Apocalyptica 2, eds. McNamara, Breatnach, Breatnach, Carey, Herbert, Mac Gearailt, Ó Dochartaigh, Poppe, Wright, Brepols, 2019. Pp. xxiv + 589. $402. in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England, Brandon W. Hawk, Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series, 30. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 271. $69. in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
The Ever-New Tongue: The Text in the Book of Lismore, trans. John Carey, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018, XII+192 pages, ISBN 978-2-503-57929-0, 35 €. in Memini: Travaux et documents.
