About
I completed my PhD in English in the field of medieval literature at the University of Saskatchewan. I currently work on the South English Legendary, a thirteenth-century collection of vernacular saints’ lives. I teach courses in literature and composition at both the University of Saskatchewan. I currently teach as a Sessional lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.
My main areas of research are: Medieval literature; Early Modern literature; Digital Humanities; Textual Editing; Manuscript Studies; Bibliography; Genre Studies; Hagiography; Romance; Devotional literature; Rhetoric; Crowd-sourcing.
My teaching areas and interests are: Middle English literature; Middle English poetry; Introduction to Digital Humanities; textual editing; Middle English mysticism; palaeography & codicology, book history; bibliography; literary forms and genres; biography and life writing; drama; novel and short story; poetry and music; prose and non-fiction; composition; rhetoric; English as an additional language.
I have two cats named Heathrow and Islington, and I dabble in antiquarian book collecting. Education
2023 PhD, English, University of Saskatchewan, CAN
Thesis Title: “Thomas Becket in the South English Legendaries: Genre, Materiality, and Why the Reader Matters”
2015 MA, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Distinction), University of Kent, UK
2014 BA, English, University of Calgary, CAN
Memberships
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
Bibliography Society Canada (BSC)
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (CSDH)
Early English Text Society (EETS)
Medieval Academy of America (MAA)
