Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Education
Publications: Books
Publications: Articles and Chapters
For synopses of these articles, click here.
Publications: Anthologized Material
Publications: Book Reviews
Selected Scholarly Presentations
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
Languages
Professional Affiliations
- Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College, 2017-
- Associate Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2010-2017
- National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, 2010
- Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2001-2004, 2007-2009
- Adjunct Professor of English, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 2009
- Adjunct Professor of English, Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 2009
- Assistant Professor of English, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 2004-2007
- Adjunct Professor of English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1997-2001
- Lecturer in English, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000-2001
Education
- Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Ph.D. in English, May 2000
- Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, B.A. summa cum laude in English, May 1994
Publications: Books
- Translation (with Paul Merchant) of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym: Unless She Beckons: Poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. LaGrande, Oregon: Redbat Books, 2018.
- Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination: The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Edition and translation of The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Toronto: Broadview Press Literary Texts & Contexts Series, 2008.
- Edition and translation of the twelfth-century Anglo-Latin Itinerarium Kambrie (The Journey Through Wales) by Gerald of Wales. Manuscript in progress.
Publications: Articles and Chapters
For synopses of these articles, click here.
- “The Life of Christina of Markyate.” In The Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Cristina Sandru et al. July 2021.
- "Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Gesta regum Britanniae." In A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth, eds. Georgia Henly and Joshua Byron Smith. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
- "Welsh Mythology." In A Companion to Medieval Wales. Eds. Kathryn Hurlock and Emma Cavell. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2023.
- "Giraldian Beavers and Their Contexts." In New Perspectives on Gerald of Wales. Eds. Georgia Henley and Joey McMullen. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018.
- "Merlin/Myrddin." In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Eds. Sian Echard and Richard Rouse. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
- “Merlin in Cornwall: The Source and Contexts of John of Cornwall’s Prophetia Merlini.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111.3 (July 2012): 304-338.
- “Chivalric Identity at the Frontier: Marie de France’s Welsh Lais.” Le Cygne: The Journal of the International Marie de France Society 4 (Fall 2007): 27-41.
- “The Conquest of the Past in The History of the Kings of Britain.” Literature Compass 4/1 (2007): 121-133.
- "The Ends of Romance in the Middle English Havelok." Exemplaria 17 (2005): 347-380.
- "Once and Future Britons: The Welsh in Lawman's Brut." Medievalia et Humanistica 28 (2001): 1-23.
- "Narrating the Matter of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Norman Colonization of Wales." The Chaucer Review 35 (2000): 60-85.
Publications: Anthologized Material
- Excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (Broadview, 2008) reprinted in The Lais of Marie de France, trans. Claire Waters (Broadview Press, 2018).
- Excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (Broadview, 2008) reprinted in King Lear, ed. Craig Walker (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2011).
- Excerpts from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (Broadview 2008) reprinted in The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd edition (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2012).
Publications: Book Reviews
- Review of The History of the Kings of Britain: First Variant Version, ed. and trans. David W. Burchmore (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 2019), Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, 2020. For an online version, see here.
- Review of Medieval Welsh Perceptions of the Orient by Natalia Petrovskaia (Brepols, 2015), in Speculum, 2019.
- Review of King Arthur's European Realm: New Evidence from Monmouth's Primary Sources by Paul Sire (McFarland, 2014), in Arthuriana (27), 2017.
- Review of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature by Sharon Kinoshita (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), in Le Cygne 5 (2008).
- Review of Welsh Walter of Henley, ed. Alexander Falileyev (Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2006), in Speculum 83 (2008).
- Review of Layamon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation, ed. Rosamund Allen et al. (London: Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2002) in Speculum 79 (2004).
- Review of Inventing Medieval Landscapes, ed. John Howe & Michael Wolfe (Tampa: University of Florida Press, 2002) in Arthuriana 14 (2004).
- Review of New Directions in Arthurian Studies, ed. Alan Lupack (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002) in Arthuriana 13 (2003).
Selected Scholarly Presentations
- “Gerald of Wales and the Limits of the Law: The St David’s Case (1198-1203).” Presented to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Western Michigan University, July 2021
- "Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and Welsh Prophecy." Presented at the Fifty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2016.
- "Wonders Taken for Signs: The Objects of Gerald's Itinerarium Kambriae." Presented at the Fiftieth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2015.
- "Giraldian Beavers and Their Contexts." Presented at the New Perspectives on Gerald of Wales conference at Harvard University, April 2015.
- "Crossing the Border: The Otherworldly Bride in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium." Presented at the Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2014.
- "Beyond Cardigan: Marginality in Chrétien's Erec et Enide." Presented at the Forty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2013.
- “Between Pilgrimage and Conquest: Giraldus’s Journey Through Wales in Its Contexts.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of the Pacific, Tacoma, Washington, March 2010.
- “Reading Between the Lines: The Earliest Version of Gerald of Wales’s Itinerarium Kambriae.” Presented at the 2008 Conference of the North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, Toronto, Ontario, July 2008.
- “Envisioning Resistance: The Welsh Dream of Rhonabwy and the English Colonization of Powys.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Bellingham, Washington, November 2007.
- “‘The Realm From Which None Escapes’: The Celtic Sources of Chrétien’s Chevalier de la Charrette.” Presented at the Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2007.
- “‘Dark is the Hall Tonight’: Translating Poetic Form in the Middle Welsh Heledd Cycle.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Literary Translators Association in Seattle, Washington, October 2006.
- "Chivalric Identity at the Frontier: Marie's Welsh Lais." Presented to the International Marie de France Society at the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2006.
- “Antenor’s Fortunate Fall: Galfridian Historiography in Troilus and Criseyde.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2006.
- “Double-Time in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Prophetiae Merlini.” Presented to the Medieval Chronicle Society at the Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2005.
- “Hybridity and History in the Itinerarium Kambriae of Gerald of Wales.” Presented as part of the "Conceptualizing Conquest" panel at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Washington, April 2004.
- "'Outtrage Awenture': The Construction of National Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Presented at the South Central Modern Language Association Conference, University of Texas at Austin, November 2002.
- "Prophecy and Politics in Twelfth-Century Britain: John of Cornwall's Prophetia Merlini." Presented as a Ruby Lecture, Reed College, November 2002.
- "The Ends of Romance in the Middle English Havelok." Presented at the Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2002. Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, University of Bristol.
- "Romancing the Matter of Britain: Wales, Chrétien's Yvain, and the Historiography of Arthurian Romance." Presented at a special session on Arthurian Romance and Medieval Historiography at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 2000.
- "Wondrous Pasts: Toward a Theory of the Marvelous in the Twelfth-Century Matter of Britain." Presented to the Boston College Medieval Forum, April 2000.
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Stipendiary, Western Michigan University, 2021
- Ruby-Lankford Award for Collaborative Undergraduate Research, Reed College, 2019
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Grant, 2010
- Nominated for the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Vermont, 2006
- Ruby Grant for Collaborative Undergraduate Research, Reed College, 2002
- University Fellowship, Boston College, 1994-1999
- Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 1993
Languages
- Reading fluency in Latin, Italian, Old English and Middle English, Middle and Modern Welsh, French (including Old French and Anglo-Norman), Old Occitan (Provençal), and Old Norse
- Working knowledge of Old Cornish and Modern Cornish, Old Irish and Modern Irish, and Spanish
Professional Affiliations
- The Medieval Academy of America
- The Dante Society of America
- The Medieval Association of the Pacific
- The International Marie de France Society