- PhD Medieval Studies, Cornell University
- MA Medieval Studies, Cornell University
- MA English, Oregon State University
- BA English, Oregon State University
Old English language and literature; Anglo-Latin literature; medieval religious literature, esp. early medieval hagiography and homilies; folklore and popular religion; prose writings; proverb studies; history of the English language; history and culture of early medieval England; Germanic languages and literatures
My primary research focus is on Old English religious literature, especially prose saints' lives, homilies, expressions of Christian (especially patristic) theology, and religious practices and folklore; proverb studies.
NEH Summer Stipend, 2025.
Bentzinger Faculty Fellowship, 2024-25.
Provost Research Leave, 2023-24.
SEC Faculty Travel Grant, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2016-17.
Susan Kircher Faculty Fellow, Department of English, 2018-19.
Dumbarton Oaks Library Short-Term Residential Fellowship, Spring 2016.
Johanna Kramer, Hugh Magennis, and Robin Norris, eds. and trans., Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 63 (Harvard University Press, 2020).
Between Earth and Heaven: Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Literature(Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014; paperback 2017).
“Reading Lyric I of the Old English Advent Lyrics as Form-of-Life.” Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honour of Charles D. Wright, ed. Stephanie Clark, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, and Shannon Godlove, Studies in Old English Literature (SOEL) 2 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), 69-96.
"Proverbial Wisdom and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Squire’s Tale," The Chaucer Review 57.1 (2022): 68-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.57.1.0068
“Ruthwell Cross,” Plates 2.54-55 in Vetusta Monumenta, ed. Katharina Boehm, Noah Heringman, and Crystal B. Lake. A peer-reviewed digital edition published under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2021. 6400 words.