“Interspecies Mimicry: Birdsong in Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale and The Parlement of Fowls,” New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 147–54.
“Latin Sources of the Old English Phoenix,” Notes and Queries New Series 53.2 (June 2006): 136–142.
Conference Presentations
Legal Lyric: Middle English Rhyming Charters. Early Middle English and the Law. 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 12-16, 2011.
Connecting the Dots: Toward Mapping a Network of Early English Lyrics
Workshop 1: Working across Disciplines. London, UK, September 6-7, 2010.
Singing the Other into Existence: Animals and Lyric in Chaucer. XVII International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Siena, Italy, July 15-19 2010.
Errors in Beauty: Lyric Voice and Blazons in Three Late-Medieval Texts. 'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind': Love and Sight in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature." University of Toronto, Canada, April 22–23rd, 2010.
Multiple Sayings: Accumulation of Meaning in “The Sayings of Saint Bernard.” Conference on Editorial Problems 2009: Manuscripts and the Forms of Middle English Literary Texts. University of Toronto, Canada, November 6–8, 2009.
Packaging Erthe: Changes in the Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century Transmission of Erthe Poems. Eleventh Biennial Early Book Society Conference, University of Exeter, England, July 9–12, 2009.
Education
2013 PhD
Department of English, University of Toronto
Middle English Lyrics: Lyric Manuscripts 1200–1400 and Chaucer’s Lyric
Major field: Medieval
Minor field: Early Modern
2006 MA (English)
University of Toronto
Coursework in Early Modern and Medieval English Literature.
2003 BEd (Secondary Education, English and Computer Science)
University of Toronto, OISE
1997 BA (English)
University of Toronto
Major: English Literature
Minor: Linguistics
Awards
2013 Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 years)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Government of Ontario, Canada
2009 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2007 Canada Graduate Scholarship
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2007 Beatty Graduate Admission Award
University of Toronto
1992 King’s College Tuition Scholarship
King’s College, University of Western Ontario
Teaching Experience
Lecturer, "Chaucer in Context"
University of Guelph, September 2012-December 2012
Teaching Assistant, "The Literary Tradition"
University of Toronto, September 2010–May 2011
Teaching Assistant, "Chaucer"
University of Toronto, September 2009–May 2010
Teaching Assistant, "Narrative"
University of Toronto, September 2007–May 2008
Secondary School Teacher
Toronto District School Board, September 2003–June 2007
Reading Languages
Latin
French
Old English
