I‘m a fifth-year PhD candidate in medieval English literature (BA University of Oxford, 2020). My dissertation project focuses on the intersection of the history of science and lay faith in late medieval literature (Chaucer, Margery Kempe, the Digby Mary Magdalene, and others). I explore how late medieval theologians and natural philosophers tried to prove that certain miracles truly had occurred, and how their literary contemporaries write about situations where laypeople continued to have faith when those proofs broke down.

I‘ve taught and TA’d a range of writing and literature courses, most recently a class on monsters and marvels in medieval literature from Beowulf to the Morte Darthur.

Honors and Awards:

2025 — Thomas J. Griffis Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student Beyond the First Year
2024 — RBS Dawn and Stuart Houston Prize for Most Outstanding Project
2023 - 2024 — Rare Book School (RBS)-UVA Fellowship

Areas of Interest: Late Medieval Literature, History of Science, Devotional Literature, Chaucer Studies, Manuscript Studies, Fictionality