Curriculum vitae

Loyola University Chicago
Department of English
Crown Center for the Humanities
6525 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago IL 60626-5344

phone: 773-508-2240
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Nature in Literature (English 288-081: Loyola University Chicago: 2007)
The Core Writing Seminar (UCWR 110-104: Loyola University Chicago: 2007)
Introduction to Shakespeare (English 274-086: Loyola University Chicago: 2006)
Writing II (English 106-053: Loyola University Chicago: 2004)
Writing I (English 105-053: Loyola University Chicago: 2003)

“Making New Things Old: Rhetoric, Typography, and Early Anglo-Saxon Scholarship.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 11 May 2007.
“Matthew Parker and the Metrical Preface to the Old English Pastoral Care.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 5 May 2006.
“‘Spotty’ Exile: The Vision of the Moon in Pearl.” Conference of the Southeast Medieval Association. Stetson University. Daytona Beach, Florida. 1 Oct. 2005.
“Translating Time in Ælfric’s Passion of St. Oswald.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 5 May 2005.
“The Moon and Mourning in Pearl.” Conference of the Illinois Medieval Association. Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, Illinois. 25 Feb. 2005.
“Oswald’s Bones: Translation, History, and the Martyrdom of a Northumbrian King.” Conference of the Southeast Medieval Association. College of Charleston. Charleston, South Carolina. 16 Oct. 2004.
“The War on Earth: God’s Sovereignty and the Puritan Revolt in Milton’s Lycidas.” A Calling to Justice. Loyola University Chicago. Chicago, Illinois. 21 Feb. 2004.

“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Appropriations of Medieval English Literature,” with Andrew Higl. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 11 May 2007.
“The Discovery and Invention of Old English Literature.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 6 May 2006.
“Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England,” with LJ Swain. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 5 May 2005.

Publicity Coordinator for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Annual McElroy Shakespeare Celebrations (Loyola University Chicago: 2005–07)
Research Assistant for Edward Wheatley (Loyola University Chicago: 2005)
Teaching Assistant for Verna Foster: English 271, “Introduction to Drama” (Loyola University Chicago: 2005)
Teaching Assistant for Allen Frantzen: English 323, “Studies in Medieval Literature” (Loyola University Chicago: 2004)
Committee on Writing Programs (Loyola University Chicago: 2002–04)

Amber Gravett and David Tuma Book Scholarship in English (Loyola University Chicago: 2006)
James Charles and Dorothy Watters Cox Graduate Fellowship in English (Loyola University Chicago: 2002–06)
Graduate Assistantship (Loyola University Chicago: 2002–06)
Departmental Distinction in English (Saint Olaf College: 1999)