I’m a feminist Chaucerian, a scholar of premodern theories of race (particularly antisemitism), and an aspiring historical fiction novelist.

I currently hold the Pamela Shulman Professorship of European and Holocaust Studies at the University of New Hampshire, as well as serving as a professor in UNH’s department of English.

My first book was Father Chaucer: Generating Anxiety in The Canterbury Tales (Oxford: OUP, 2019), or, as I like to call the project, “Reproductive Chaucer.” My book reassessed the medieval English poet’s greatest masterpiece through theories of biological and poetic reproduction, arguing that while later generations sought to identify Chaucer as “Father of English Poetry,” Chaucer himself displayed a great ambivalence about paternity as a mode of posthumous self-perpetuation and legacy construction.

I have co-edited several special journal issues, including:

• “New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer,” The Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019), with Nicole Nolan Sidhu.

• “New Feminisms,” postmedieval 10.3 (2019), with Nicole Nolan Sidhu.

  • Republished as Feminist Intersectionality: Centering the Margins in 21st-Century Medieval Studies (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).

• “Documentary Chaucer,” The Chaucer Review (2026), co-edited with Carissa Harris and Sarah Baechle.

• “Colloquium: Notes from Another England,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 48, co-edited with Emily Steiner. Forthcoming late 2026.

• “Visible Jews,”Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, co-edited with Emily Steiner. Forthcoming summer 2027.

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