Postdoctoral Scholar
I am an independent researcher and writer based in Chicago, Illinois. My scholarly work has studied medieval English literature and culture, in particular literature and sciences, manuscript studies, and medievalism in the Americas. From 2018-2021, I held postdoctoral positions at the Institute on the Formation Knowledge. In 2017-18, I was a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. I earned a Ph. D. in English from Yale University in spring 2017.
In addition to the publications listed below, I have co-edited Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe for the new Cambridge Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (with Jenna Mead). A biography-in-preparation, called The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandão, was shortlisted for the 2019 Tony Lothian Prize.
Selected Publications
- “Alchemy Under the Hood.” Review of The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy 1300–1700 by Jennifer M. Rampling. Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 May 2021.
- “Reading Dives and Pauper in Lisbon, 1465.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 180-221.
- “Guitar Lessons at Blackfriars: Vernacular Medicine and Preachers’ Style in Henry Daniel’s Liber uricrisiarum.” Forthcoming in Beyond Scholasticism, Cambridge University Press.
- “An Alchemist’s Travels, according to Himself.” Know 4.1 (Spring 2020): 89-110.
- “Chaucer’s Traces.” Review of Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 June 2019.
- “‘Thorkelin y el Beowulf,’ by Jorge Luis Borges.” PMLA 132.2 (March 2017): 462-70.
- “Gower’s Bedside Manner.” New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 150-74.
