My work focuses on the connections among medieval/Renaissance poetry, economics, and the environment. My book, The Work of Reform: Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser (Cornell 2025), considers how medieval poetry about agrarian work informed early colonial ideologies in the sixteenth century. My current research project is on apocalypticism, literary form, and economic crisis in late medieval and early modern literature. I teach classes on medieval and early modern poetry and drama, as well as courses on critical theory and environmental literature. 

Select Publications: 

• The Work of Reform: Literature and Political Ecology from Langland to Spenser (Cornell University Press, 2025).
• "Writing Colonial Resource Landscapes: Ecologies of Work, War, and Race in A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596) and Milicia y descripción de las Indias (1599)." Renaissance Quarterly (Forthcoming).
• “The Apocalyptic Aesthetics of the List: Form and Political Economy in Wynnere and Wastoure.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52.1 (2022): 119-146.
• “Personification, Action, and Economic Power in Piers Plowman.” Yearbook of Langland Studies, 34 (2020): 117-135.
• “Chaucer in Ireland: Spenser's Archaisms and the Question of Development.” in  Reading and Re-reading Chaucer and Spenser, ed. by R. Stenner, T. Badcoe, & G. Griffith. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019).
• “Why Colin Clout Came Back: English Reformation Literature and Edmund Spenser’s Late Work.”ELH, 84.3 (2017): 503-527.
• “Wages, Work, Wealth, and Economic Inequality: ‘The Reeve’s Tale,’”. The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales. (2017) https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/rvt1/ 

Research Areas:

• Medieval & Renaissance Literature
• Critical Theory

Research Interests:

• Medieval Literature
• Renaissance Literature
• Literature and the Environment
• Literature and Political Economy