C.V.
Employment
2023-Pres. Assistant Professor of English, Affiliate with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and
Affiliate with Global Medieval Studies, Boston University
2022-2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Boston University
2021 Adjunct Professor, English, Fairfield University
2021 Adjunct Professor, Gender Studies, University of Hartford
2020-2022 Adjunct Professor, Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Conn.
2020-2022 Adjunct Professor, Department of English, University of Conn.
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant, Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Conn.
2012-2020 Instructor of Record, Department of English, University of Conn.
Education
2020 Ph.D. in English, Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2014 M.A. in English, Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2011 B.A. in History and Geography, Honors, magna cum laude, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Monographs
In Preparation Mercurial Natures: Chaucer’s Trans Hermeneutics. (Book Manuscript)
Single-Author Publications
Forthcoming
“Medieval Intersex: Discourses and Discontents,” in The Companion to Sexuality in the Medieval West, eds. Jenny Bledsoe and Michelle Sauer. (Expected Spring 2025)
Forthcoming
“Trans Affirmations and Antagonisms in Henry Medwall’s Nature,” in Special Issue “Medieval Trans Natures” for Medieval Ecocriticism, eds. Aylin Malcolm and Nat Rivkin. (Expected Fall 2024).
Forthcoming
“Philosophy and Science,” in A Cultural History of Gender, 500-1400CE, eds. Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson. (Bloomsbury Series).
2023
"Trans Animacies and Premodern Alchemies," in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements, eds. Jane Bonsall, Meagan Khoury, and Basil Arnould Price. The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, Feb. 2023
2022
“The Yeoman’s Canon: Disclosure, Complaint, and the Labor of Consent,” in the “Historicizing Consent” Colloquium, eds. Carissa Harris and Fiona Somerset, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2022).
*Special Commendation Award from Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS)
2021
“Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman,” in Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, eds. Anna Kłosowska, Greta LaFleur, and Masha Raskolnikov (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Nov 2021).
2020
“Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones: Chaucer’s Queer Cavities,” in Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies, eds. Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman. New Queer Medievalisms Series (De Gruyter, Medieval Institute Publications, Nov 2020)
2020
“The Owl and the Nightingale, Animacy, and Species Division,” Early Middle English 2.1 (2020): 1-31.
*Awarded the 2020 Catherine Innes-Parker Memorial Prize for Early Middle English
2019
“Lolling and the Suspension of Salvation in Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 33 (2019): 13-42.
Collaborative Publications
Forthcoming
“An Herbal Triptych: Queer Intimacies and the Vegetal Middle Ages,” in “Queer Environs” Special Issue in Diacritics, ed. Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour. Co-Authored with Danielle Allor.
In Preparation
Editor’s Introduction, “Introduction: What is Gender?” in A Cultural History of Trans Lives, 300-1450 with J.D Sargan. Bloomsbury, projected 2027.
In Preparation
Editor’s Introduction to Special Issue on “Queer/Trans Worlds” with Kersti Francis and Bryan Keene, Journal of Medieval Worlds, projected 2025
2021
Lines 2416-2430 in Beowulf By All: A Community Translation and Workbook, eds. Elaine Treharne, Jean Abbott. (ARC-Humanities Press, June 2021)
2020
“Medieval Studies: The Stakes of the Field,” Editor’s Introduction to “Race, Revulsion, and Revolution in Medieval Studies,” postmedieval 11.4 (2020) with M. Breann Leake and Mary Rambaran-Olm: https://link.springer.com/journal/41280/volumes-and-issues/11-4
2019
“The Medingen Manuscripts at Harvard: Houghton Library’s MS Lat 395 and MS Lat 440,” Harvard Library Bulletin 28.2 (2019): 1-56, with Gennifer Dorgan, Laura Godfrey, Henrike Lähnemann, Joseph Leake.
Open-Access and Digital Publications
2022
“Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Networks Linking Medieval Poland, France, England, and Byzantium,” for GSC’s Podcast Series, The Multicultural Middle Ages, with R. Betancourt, M.W. Bychowski, A. Kłosowska, B. Gutt, C. Maillet, and M. Raskolnikov. Recording January 2022.
2020
“Medical Violence and ‘The Miracle of the Black Leg’,” in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, Oct. 8: https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2020/10/08/medical-violence-and-the-medieval-miracle-of-the-black-leg/
2019
“Limb,” in Medieval Disability Glossary. Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages: https://medievaldisabilityglossary.hcommons.org/
2018
“Heat map of the Distribution of the Medingen Manuscripts in 1542 (ringed) and in 2017,” in Henrike Lähnemann, “From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen,” in Reading Books as Cultural Objects, ed. Evanghelia Stead. (Palgrave, 2018)
2018
Lines 2416-2430, Beowulf By All 1.0. Collaborative translation of Beowulf by 190 authors, eds. Elaine Treharne and Jean Abbott. Hosted by Stanford University, Text Technologies: https://texttechnologies.stanford.edu/publications/beowulf-all
Book Review Publications
2023
Review: Tison Pugh, On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021) for Speculum 98.3 (2023): 924-925.
2022
Review: Leah DeVun, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Identity from Genesis to the Renaissance. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021) for Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 390-395.
2021
Review: Anne Scott and Michael Barbezat, eds. Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe: Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology and Art. Series: ARC - Borderlines. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2019) in The Medieval Review: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/33221/36860
2021
Review: Laura Kalas Williams, Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course. (Boydell & Brewer, 2020) in Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (JMRC) 47.2 (2021): 218-221.
2016
Review: Nicole Nolan Sidhu, Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) in Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies “Gendered Spaces Issue” 13.1 (2016): https://hortulus-journal.com/journal/volume-13-number-1-2017/goodrich/
Editorial Experience
2024-Pres.
Editorial Board of postmedieval
2023-Pres.
Collaborative Editor with J.D. Sargan, A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1450). Bloomsbury, projected 2027
2022-Pres.
Collaborative Editor with Kersti Francis and Bryan Keene, Special Issue “Queer/Trans Worlds” in Journal of Medieval Worlds, projected 2025
2019-2020
Collaborative Editor with Mary Rambaran-Olm and M. Breann Leake, postmedieval 11.4 (Fall 2020), 10th Anniversary Edition, Palgrave Macmillan
Selected Presentations
2024 Jan. “Temper–, or, Chaucer’s Caustic Ambience,” at MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
2023 July “The Work of Stillness,” at the International Piers Plowman Society Conference, London, UK
2023 Jan. “Dislocated Natures and Trans Time,” on “Old English, Middle English, And Contemporary Trans Studies” roundtable at MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Invited Contribution
2022 Dec. “Piers in Pieces,” on ‘Current Topics in Teaching Piers Plowman’ panel for ‘Piers Without Tears,’ International Piers Plowman Society Virtual Workshop
2022 Nov. “Elemental Trans,” for Early Modern Trans Studies Conference at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
2021 March “Alchemical Bodies and the Science of Sex," for "Plenary Seminar - Caused Selves: Embodying the Material World in Middle Ages," led by Julie Orlemanski at 45th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2021 Jan. “Sex and Alchemical Animacy,” at Gender and Medieval Studies (GMS) Conference on ‘Gender and Mobility.’ University of Surrey, Guilford, UK. Digital Conference.
2020 July “The Yeoman’s Canon: Toxic Mentors and Complaint,” to the “Toxic Chaucer” panel at the New Chaucer Society Congress, Durham, UK, 2020. Postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19
2019 April "Somatechnical Piers Plowman: Bodies Without Limbs Without Bodies," at the International Piers Plowman Society Conference, University of Miami, Florida
2018 July “Or as craft countrefeteth kinde: Technologies of Counterfeit in the House of Fame,” at the New Chaucer Society Congress, Toronto, ON, Canada
2018 May “Piers Plowman and Queer-Marxist (Re)Production,” on the “Twenty-First Century Piers Plowman Roundtable,” at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2018 May “Piers Plowman’s Limbs,” on the “Social Justice in the Piers Plowman Tradition” panel at the 53rd International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2018 April “As for to werken any thyng in contrarie: (Re)production and the Limits of Nature,” at the 44th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2017 June. “So faren ye that multiplie: The Laws of Nature in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” at the Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer & the Law, University of London, London, UK