PhD, University of Toronto

Animal Studies; Medieval/Early Modern; Religion, Spirituality, Secularism; Women/Gender Studies

• • 2023-2024 Best Faculty Mentor (in Classroom) – Awarded by Graduate Students in English

• • 2022-2023 Faculty Fellowship at the Tennessee Humanities Center

• • 2021 Best First Book Award from SEMA (Southeastern Medieval Association)

• • 2016-2017 Huntington Library Short-Term Award (one month)

• • 2015-2016 Faculty Fellowship at the Tennessee Humanities Center

• • Spring 2011 Chancellor’s Grant for Faculty Research

• • NEH Seminar Participant, “St. Francis of Assisi and the Thirteenth Century” (Summer 2008)

• • 2007-2008 Junior Fellowship, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

• “The Pelican as Angry Bird in the Ancrene Wisse and in Medieval Devotional Culture,” The Mediaeval Journal 12.1 (2022; published in 2025): 53-110.
• “Facing Jesus: Julian of Norwich, the Veronica in Rome and the Colors of Jesus’ Skin,” forthcoming in Materiality, Embodiment, and Enclosure in Medieval Religious Culture (1080 – 1530), ed. Michelle M. Sauer and Joshua S. Easterling (Boydell & Brewer, 2025).
• “Affective Piety,” in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Newhauser et al. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), I:22-25.
• Review of Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, edited by Jane Beal (Brill, 2019), in Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. 47 (2022): 107-12.
• Review of Liz Herbert McAvoy, ed. and trans., A Revelation of Purgatory, Library of Medieval Women (D.S. Brewer, 2017), in The Medieval Review, 20.08.39.
• “Manger, I. Christianity, Medieval Times,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 17 (Walter de Gruyter, 2019), cols. 733-45.
• Review of Maureen Boulton, Sacred Fictions of Medieval France: Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500. (D.S. Brewer, 2015), in The Medieval Review, 16.05.17.
• The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, The Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
• “Holy Family, I. Christianity,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 12 (Walter de Gruyter, 2016), cols. 121-26.
• “Out of Egypt, Into England: Tales of the Good Thief for Medieval English Audiences,” in “Diuerse Imaginaciouns of Cristes Life”: Devotional Culture in England and Beyond, 1300-1560, ed. Stephen Kelly and Ryan Perry (Brepols, 2014): 147-241.
• “Wanton Boys in Middle English Texts and the Christ Child in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, MS Z822 N81,” in Medieval Lifecycles: Continuity and Change, ed. Isabelle Cochelin and Karen Smyth (Brepols, 2013): 81-145.
• “Jesus and the Birds in Medieval Abrahamic Traditions,” Traditio 66 (2011): 189-230.
• “Boys Will Be Boys: The Physiology of Childhood and the Apocryphal Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 42.1 (2011): 179-225.
• The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!, ed. Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney (University of Toronto Press, 2012; reprinted in paperback in 2015).
• Co-authored with Theresa Kenney, “The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child,” in The Christ Child in Medieval Culture, pp. xiii-xxii.
• “Birgitta of Sweden and Christ’s Clothing,” in The Christ Child in Medieval Culture, pp. 117-44.
• “Cecily Neville and the Apocryphal Infantia salvatoris in the Middle Ages,” Mediaeval Studies 71 (2009): 235-300.
• Review of Michael E. Goodich, Miracles and Wonders: The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350 (Ashgate, 2007), in Speculum 84.1 (2009): 146-48.
• “Margery Kempe’s Ravishment into the Childhood of Christ,” Mediaevalia 27.2 (2006): 27-57.
• “Conflicting Notions of Pietas in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina,” Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005): 67-92.
• “Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend,” in Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality, ed. Albrecht Classen (Walter de Gruyter, 2005), pp. 135-57.