Teaching Experience:

Teaching Assistant: Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Teaching Assistant: Masterpieces of English Literature, 1640-1832

Teaching Assistant: Medieval Literature

Instructor: University Writing Program 1: Expository Writing (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

Teaching Assitant: The Early Middle Ages

Research Interests:

My areas of interest include the morality of excess and perceptions of excess in medieval and early modern literature, especially within depictions of “paradise.”  I am also interested in issues of authority, and transgression and the social construction of “moderation.”

Presentations:

Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 2008: “The Garden of Delights: ‘Wild Above Rule or Art’”

18th Century and Early Modern Studies Colloquium, UC Davis, April 2009: “Excess and Masculinity in Early Modern Misbehavior”