Book project: Every Living Soul: Literature and Zoology in England, 1100–1400

This project offers an interdisciplinary perspective on late medieval knowledge of animals, in all its under-acknowledged diversity and sophistication. Reading across scientific and poetic genres, I consider medieval zoology in relation to its textual and experiential sources, its impacts on social hierarchies, and its relevance for ecological activism today. Through case studies of Latin, English, and French texts, I address topics such as: intersections between gender variance and animality, cetacean science, ecological grief, and the philosophical implications of canine cognition.

Articles

• “‘Gentil oisel ad en ostur’: Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s Yonec.” Medieval Ecocriticisms (2024).
• “What the Mole Knows: Experience, Exempla, and Interspecies Dialogue in Albert the Great’s De animalibus.” New Medieval Literatures (2022).
• “Of Monks and Movable Beasts: Animals as Fellow Travelers in the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis.” Viator (2021).
• “In the Orbit of the Sphere: Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi in UPenn MS Codex 1881.” Manuscript Studies (2020).

Edited Special Issues

• “Premodern Digital Ecologies” (with Andrew Richmond). Digital Philology (2025).
• “Medieval Trans Natures” (with Nat Rivkin). Medieval Ecocriticisms (2024).

Book Chapters

• “Animals.” The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer (forthcoming).
• “Before Objectivity: Pluralizing Science with Premodern Knowledge.” Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom (forthcoming).
• “Not Reading the Edition” (with Whitney Trettien and Cassidy Holahan). Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing (forthcoming).

Online Scholarly Resources

• “Trans Studies.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English (forthcoming).
• Amplified Edition and Curation for “The Dolphin.” The Pulter Project (2020).
• Curations for “Universal Dissolution.” The Pulter Project (2019). 

Book Reviews

• Huaiyu Chen, In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2024).
• Julie Orlemanski, Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England (2021).
• Karl Steel, How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters. Environmental History (2021).
• Ru Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House (2020).
• Michael J. Warren, Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations (2020).
• Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (2020).