I am an Associate Professor of medieval literature and historical linguistics in the Department of English at Northern Kentucky University. I have been here since 1997 and teach medieval literature (Old and Middle English), the history of the English language, linguistics, a survey of early British literature (from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century), introduction to literature, and composition (both introductory and advanced). From 1997 to 2008, I also taught Latin.  I have even, on occasion, taught Elementary French and a history course on the Crusades.

As a medievalist, my academic interests are multidisciplinary. My graduate work focused mainly on English and French literature of the later Middle Ages, but I also minored in Old English, medieval philosophy, and Latin palaeography. Much of my research has been twofold: the works of John Gower (friend and contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer) and the transmission of the story of Troy in the Middle Ages (especially Benoît de Ste.-Maure's Roman de Troie). Recently, I have also started to work more on Middle English and Old French romances and am currently completing an article on miscegenation and interfaith marriage in The King of Tars.  In addition to my literary and manuscript studies, I have done considerable work in humanities computing, especially with the text-analysis software TACT, developed at the University of Toronto. My main project has been to produce an electronic edition of the Roman de Troie, and I now plan to create a hypertext version of the text.

My research interest in computers has inevitably expanded into my teaching. At NKU, I teach courses in College Writing (ENG 101) and Advanced Writing (ENG 291), both of which focus on cyberculture, that is the impact that technology is having on writing and society. In it, students learn not only to improve their control of expository forms, but also to use basic computer software effectively, to navigate the internet with a critical eye for finding and analyzing websites, and to create their own webpages. As a result of this course and an interest in the current, developing theory of virtuality, I am working on a project on cyber theory and medieval romance literature.

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	Publications & Research
	A Few Words about Reference Letters Please read before asking me, or any other professor, for a letter of reference.
	"Teaching HEL to (North) American Students" Presentation for a session on HEL and pedagogy at the SEMA Conference (18 October 2001)
	The Rhizome and the Errant Self: Approaches to the (Neo)Medieval Narrative Special Session - MLA Convention 2004
	"A lingo of our own, we reckon" (The Cincinnati Post, May 31, 2005) Newspaper article (in PDF format) on my student's independent study project examining accent variation in the tri-state region.
	Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati Speech Accent Archive and Dialect Study
	Call For Participants for Eastern Kentucky Speech Accent/Dialect Study