Women's and Gender Studies Program

Education: PhD and MA (Medieval Studies), Cornell University; MA (Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology), University of Durham, England; BA, Georgetown University

Teaching and Research Interests: Old English and Early Middle English literature, especially the literatures of medieval women and La3amon's Brut (12th century verse history of Britain and Arthur); intersections of physical and intellectual culture; archaeology of the British Isles; feminist and gender theory; Anglo-Saxon architecture; J.R.R. Tolkien's writings; fantasy and science fiction. "La3amon's Narrative Innovations and Bakhtin's Theories" (1994); annual review article on archaeology for Year's Work in Old English; Spaces of the Living and the Dead: An Archaeological dialogue (1999)

Work in Progress: Writing the Future, on the Brut; book on women and weaving in the texts and archaeology of Anglo-Saxon culture, Tangled Webs