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Middle English, Old English, Old Norse; religious culture; visionary literature; manuscript studies; women's reading practices; monastic history; feminist theory

Renaissance music; viola da gamba; bookmaking. 

"The Origins and Development of Mary's Book at the Annunciation," Speculum, forthcoming 2014. 

“Looking in the Past for a Discourse of Motherhood: Birgitta of Sweden and Julia Kristeva,” Medieval Feminist Forum 47.1 (2011), 52-76. Winner, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship 2010 Prize for Best Article by a Graduate Student.

“Richard Methley and the Translation of Vernacular Religious Writing into Latin” in After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth Century England, ed. by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 449-466.

“St Bridget of Sweden” in History of British Women’s Writing, Vol. 1: 700-1500, ed. by Diane Watt and Liz Herbert McAvoy (London: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 207-215. [Commissioned essay]

“Scribes at Syon: The Communal Usage and Production of Legislative Texts at the English Birgittine House” in Saint Birgitta, Syon and Vadstena. Papers from a Symposium in Stockholm 4-6 October 2007, ed. by C. Gejrot, S. Risberg & M. Åkestam (Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2010), pp. 71-88.

“Space and Enclosure in Julian of Norwich’sA Revelation of Love” in A Companion to Julian of Norwich, ed. by Liz Herbert McAvoy (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2008), pp. 154-165 [Commissioned essay]

 “Julian of Norwich and St. Bridget of Sweden: Creating Intimate Space with God” in Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure, ed. by Liz Herbert McAvoy (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008), pp. 127-140.