Education

PhD, SUNY (Buffalo)
MA, SUNY (Buffalo)
BA, Lancaster (England)

Area(s) of Specialty

Anglo-Saxon Literature
Linguistics
History of the English Language

Contact Information

Office: C210Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5384
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 Writing the First Millennium
ENG 160 Introduction to British Literature
ENG 165 Studies in British Literature
ENG 300 Place, Self, Text
ENG 305 Old English Language and Literature
ENG 310 - Perspectives on the Middle Ages:
Medieval Constructs of Gender, Race, and Class
ENG 390 - Structure of English
ENG 710 - Early Medieval Narrative

Selected Publications

A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes , co-edited with Clare A Lees, Penn State Press, 2006.

Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, with Clare A. Lees. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World, with Marijane Osborn. University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Gender and Empire. Commissioned editor, with Clare Lees of special volume of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies  34.1 (2004)

“Signifying Gender and Empire,” with Clare Lees, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34.1 (2004)