My primary research interest is the history of Christianity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. I approach the study of religion through book history, material culture, and theories of gender. My first book, Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture and Religious Reform (Ashgate) uses previously unpublished cultural artifacts to revise longstanding assumptions about religion, gender, and popular culture. In it, I demonstrated that by the fourteenth century, worldly, sexually active brides of Christ, both male and female, were no longer aberrations and provide a history of the dispersion of theology about the bride of Christ in the period between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries and explains how this metaphor, initially devised for a religious elite, became integral to the laity’s pursuit of salvation. I have also published on the relationship between religion, new media, and medieval culture in contemporary video games. I am currently preparing a critical introduction, biography, and facing-page edition and translation of the poetry of Anna Bijns (1493-1575). My next major book project, "Christian Pulp: Material Religion in the Age of Paper” documents how the introduction of affordable paper to western Europe changed Christianity. I also co-edit the interdisciplinary book series Christianities Before Modernity, which interrogates the traditional chronological, geographical, social, and institutional boundaries of premodern Christianity