Expertise

Research areas

  • Latin literature and poetics in the High Middle Ages (1000-1300)
  • The classical tradition
  • The intersection of literature and philosophy
  • Manuscript studies

My work focuses on the literature of the European Middle Ages, with special attention to the twelfth century, an era of cultural renewal and literary innovation in Latin and in the vernacular languages of continental Europe. I am particularly interested in the way literary communities (broadly construed) develop and then display their common intellectual interests and literary influences. Some recent projects include a monograph on twelfth-century prosimetrum, a collaborative edition of an anthology of Medieval Latin verse, and a study of a piece of Augustinian wordplay that establishes a framework for medieval thought about the emotions.

Communities
European Studies, Classics
Degrees
PhD, Harvard University, Medieval Latin, 2002
MMS, University of Notre Dame, 1995
AB, University of Michigan, 1993
Keywords
ancient history medieval studies classical or ancient language or literature classical latin language or literature linguistics or philology
Associations
American Philological Association
Medieval Academy of America