Education and Career:
July 2000  promotion to Associate Professor and tenure granted by UWO
July 1997 appointed as Assistant Professor of Medieval English, UWO
1995-7 junior research fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford
1995 PhD in English, Cornell University
  major field: Medieval English
  minor fields: Cultural Studies/Theory
            Early Modern/Renaissance
            Medieval Philosophy
1994-5 Visiting student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
1993-4 Visiting student at Clare Hall, Cambridge
1993 MA in English, Cornell University
1990 AB in English with Special Honours, University of Chicago
1986-8 Cleveland Institute of Music (degree credit applied to U. of Chicago A.B.)                                         Top of Page

Doctoral Thesis:
Imaginary Publics:  Extraclergial Writers and Vernacular Audience in Late Medieval England
 Thesis committee at Cornell: Winthrop Wetherbee, Andrew Galloway, Barbara Correll
 External Supervisor:  Anne Hudson, University of Oxford
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Academic Honours and Research Grants:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 2000-3 ($49,891)
SSHRC Internal Travel and Research Grant, UWO, 1999 ($1,700)
Vice President's Fund Research Grant, UWO, 1998 ($4000)
Randall MacIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1995-7
Clare Hall Cambridge predoctoral research fellowship, 1993-4
Mellon Humanities fellowship, 1990-5
Phi Beta Kappa, 1990
Napier Wilt Prize, best A.B. English thesis, 1990
Carl Lehmann prize, best first-year essay, 1987                                                                                              Top of Page

Publications:
-Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 37, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
          An extensively revised version of my doctoral thesis, this book investigates the late medieval English trend toward
            intellectual argumentation in the vernacular and its attendant anxieties for the largely clerical elite literate in Latin.
-"‘Mark him wel for he is on of þo':  Training the ‘Lewed' Gaze to Discern Hypocrisy", forthcoming in English Literary History.
-"Patient Politics in Piers Plowman: A Response", forthcoming in the Yearbook of Langland Studies.
-"‘As just as is a squyre':  The Politics of ‘Lewed Translacion' in Chaucer's Summoner's Tale", Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1999, 187-207.
-"Dymmok's Halfhearted Gestures Toward Publication", in M. Aston and C. Richmond, eds., Lollardy and the Gentry in the Later Middle Ages (Stroud, Glocs, 1997), 52-76.
-"Vernacular Argumentation in the Testimony of William Thorpe", Mediaeval Studies 58 (1996), 207-41.
-Articles on Dietrich of Freiberg, John of Mirecourt, Gerbert of Aurillac, and Thomas of York for the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, gen. ed. E. Craig (Routledge, 1998).
-Entry on ‘Affrican' for the Chaucer Encyclopaedia (forthcoming).                                                                Top of Page

Under consideration:
-"Excitative speech and vernacular consequences in late medieval England" accepted by editors Renate Blumenfeld Kosinski and Nancy Warren for publication in the collection The Spirit of the Vernacular: to be submitted to external reviewers in summer 2001.
-"Eciam Mulier: women in Lollardy and the problem of sources" accepted by editors Kathryn Kerby Fulton and Linda Olson for publication in the collection Reading Women in the Middle Ages: to be submitted to external reviewers by Notre Dame UP in spring 2001.
"Professionalizing translation at the turn of the fifteenth century:  Ullerston's Determinacio, Arundel's Constitutiones" accepted by editors Nicholas Watson and Fiona Somerset for publication in the collection Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style: to be submitted to external reviewers by Penn State Press in December 2000.
-"Here, There, and Everywhere?  Wycliffite Conceptions of the Eucharist and Chaucer's ‘Other' Lollard Joke" accepted by editors Fiona Somerset, Derrick Pitard, and Jill Havens for publication in the collection New Directions in Wycliffite Studies: Heresy and Reform: to be submitted to external reviewers by Boydell and Brewer in November 2000.           Top of Page

Book Reviews:
N.S. Thompson, Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales.  in Literary Research / Recherche Littéraire No. 29: Spring-Summer / printemps-été 1998.
Barbara K. Gold, et al, eds., Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition in Literary Research / Recherche Littéraire No. 30: Fall-Winter / automne-hiver 1998-1999.
Alfred Thomas, Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420 in in Literary Research / Recherche Littéraire No. 30: Fall-Winter / automne-hiver 1998-1999.                                                                                            Top of Page

Papers Given:
-"Wat Tyler, the 1381 Peasant's Revolt, and the Writing of History" at the New Chaucer Society, London, July 2000.
-"Latinate Cacophony and Vernacular Voice in Piers Plowman" at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2000.
-"The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature on ‘Latinitas'" on the panel reviewing aspects of the CHMEL at the MLA December 1999.  The panel is to be published in SAC.
-"Patient Politics in Piers Plowman: A Response" at the International Langland Conference, Asheville, NC, July 1999.
-"Wycliffite Learning and Spiritual Transgression" at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds UK, July 1999.
-"Here, There, and Everywhere?  Wycliffite Conceptions of the Eucharist and Chaucer's ‘Other' Lollard Joke" at the Medieval Seminar, University of Oxford, 2 June 1999.
-"Professionalizing Translation at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century:  Ullerston's Determinacio, Arundel's Constitutiones" at Intersections:  Medieval & Postmodern Forms, Theory and Semiotics, McMaster University, May 1999.
-"Here, There, and Everywhere?  Wycliffite Conceptions of the Eucharist" at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1999.
-with Andrew Cole, "Scriptural Translation, Orthodoxy, and the Wycliffite Heresy: The Case of Richard Ullerston, Oxford, 1401" at Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style, UWO, March 1999.
-"Chaucer's ‘Other' Lollard Joke" at the University of Washington in Seattle, January 1999.
-"Medieval hypocrisy and Chaucer's Friar's Tale" to the Medieval and Renaissance seminar, UWO, April 1998.
-"Reson and Gabbynge:  Latin and English Versions of Wyclif's Dialogus" at the 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1997.
-"Speaking Excitative:  The Evaluation of Scriptural Authority in Polemic Writings after Fitzralph" at the Annual Conference of the Medieval Academy, Toronto Ontario April 1997.
-"Frustra et inepte adducitur:  Contesting Scriptural Authority after Fitzralph"  at The Laws and the Prophets conference, UWO, April 1997.
-"The Politics of ‘Englysch Translacion':  ‘Lewed'-Transferred Capacities in Trevisan, Wycliffite and Chaucerian Dialogue", at the New Chaucer Society, Los Angeles, August 1996.
-"‘Mark him wel for he is on of þo':  Training the Lay Gaze in the Conclusions, Dymmok's Reply, and Chaucer", at the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1996.
-"‘Lewed Intersections':  Representing the Vernacular, Then and Now" at Varieties of Historicism conference, UWO, March 1996.
-"‘Goddis Lawe' and the ‘Kingis Maieste':  Contesting Royalism in the Upland Series" at the MLA, December 1995.
-"Exhuming the Upland Series" at the Medieval Seminar, University of Oxford, May 1995.
-"Dymmok's Reply to the Twelve Conclusions" at the Lollardy and Gentry conference, Cambridge, March 1995.