Degree

Ph.D. in comparative literature, Stanford University

B.A, Emory University

Interests

digital humanities, digital rhetorics, hacker culture, online privacy

visual rhetoric, data visualization

grammar. sentence diagramming

history & future of the book, typography, codicology, paleography

comics studies, videogaming, game theory

medieval linguistics and literature

translation studies

biblical rhetoric

children's literature

Publications

“Wilfred Santiago and the Strategic Offense.”  The Hooded Utilitarian, September 15, 2011.  

Review of Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature (Keeling & Pollard, eds.).  Journal of Food, Culture, and Society, March 2010.

“Survival of the Disciplines.”  Inside Higher Education, February 12, 2010. 

“Can This Really Be the End? Nation, Salvation, Commodification, Preservation.”  Postscripts, January 2010.

"Daniel the Dreamer, Daniel the Dream-Reader."  Dreams and Dream Visions, ed. Nancy Van Deusen, Brill, 2010.

“It’s a Mole-Eat-Hare World: The Riverbank, the School, and the Colony,” in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows: A Classic at 100, ed. Jacqueline Horne and Donna White, Children’s Literature Association, December 2009.

"Using the Ormulum to Redefine Vernacularity." The Vulgar Tongues: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, ed. Nicholas Watson and Fiona Somerset, Penn State Press, 2003, pp. 1-23. [paperback edition, 2012]

Distinctions

Wig Distinguished Professorship for Excellence in Teaching, Pomona College, 2010

Mellon 8 Research/Teaching Partnership Grant, 2009 (declined)

Exchange Fellow, British Academy, 2007-8

Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, 2008

National Humanities Center Summer Institute, 2007

Mellon Fellowship for the Humanities, 1995-1996.