I teach and research English literature of the Middle Ages, as well as the literature and culture of different eras. I have been a member of the UK English Department since Fall 2007. 

At the undergraduate level, I teach the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and late medieval literature, the Survey of British Literature to the Seventeenth Century, Arthurian literature, Old English language and literature, the History of the English Language, and literary critical theory. I also teach literature courses on special topics at all levels. I have directed several exceptional undergraduate students in Independent Studies on different topics. 

At the graduate level, I teach these subjects as well as the professional literature pedagogy seminar. I actively participate on graduate committees for both the M.A. and Ph.D., as director or member, covering medieval and early modern literature.

My current major research project is a new critical edition of the works of Peter Idley, who was an English bureaucrat-poet from the fifteenth century. My other long-term project is a book on popular constitutionalism, mirrors for princes, and the poetics of governmentality in English literature from the Second Barons' War to the early Tudor period, c. 1246-1541.

My recent publications include chapters and articles on household conduct literature; courts, parliament, and constitutionalism in medieval literature and culture; the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower; the historiography of English philology; and other topics involving medieval literature, history, politics, and criticism. I am the co-editor of Middle English for the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, one of the oldest scholarly journals in Medieval Studies.