Recent scholarly projects and publications include:

With Angela Laflen, “Thinking Inside the Panel: Re-Framing Undergraduate Research and Information Literacy with a Graphic Narrative Database Assignment,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, and Composition, 2022.

Co-director, with Gina Brandolino, of the Medieval Meets Modern series, The Middle Ages for Educators, eds. Laura Morreale, Sara McDougall, and Merle Eisenberg. 2nd edition, 2020.

“Teaching ‘The Seafarer,’” in Middle Ages for Educators, 2020.

“The Merchant’s Tale” (edition and commentary) in The Medieval Disability Sourcebook, edited by Cameron McNabb, Punctum Press, 2020.

“What Does It Mean to Read a Medieval Text?” (compiler/editor) in The Open Access Companion to the “Canterbury Tales,” eds. the OACCT Editorial Collective, https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/, 2017.

“Women, Tales, and ‘Talking Back’ in Pore Caitif and Dives and Pauper” in Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations, ed. Nicole Rice (Brepols Publishers, 2013), 181-214.

“Critical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and the Prik of Conscience,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, Composition, and Culture 13.2 (2013), 245-266.

Recent presentations include:

With Gina Brandolino, “Medieval Comics: The Alchemy of Word and Image,” Digital Medieval Studies Institute, Washington, DC, February 2023.

“From Banderoles to Speech Bubbles: Exploring Comics Alongside Medieval Manuscripts in a First-Year Writing Course,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, February 2023.

“Non-Normative Bodies in the Canterbury Tales, the Track series, and Wonder,” virtual presentation, New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, July 2022.

“Perusall in the HEL Classroom: Practical and Ethical Considerations,” Society for the Study of the History of the English Language Conference, University of Washington, May 2022.

With Angela Laflen, "Communities of CURE: Undergraduate Research in the COVID-Era Classroom," Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, January 2021.

“Teaching the Canterbury Tales Alongside Graphic Narratives,” 21st Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Toronto, CA, July 2018.

“Oh, the (Medieval) Places We’ll Go: Children’s Literature as a Gateway Course” (poster presentation), International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.

“Literary Reflections on Advising: From Old English to New Jersey,” Keynote talk, NACADA Drive-In Conference, Marist College, April 2016.

“Managing Diagnosis in the Medieval/Disability Studies Classroom,” Medieval Academy Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2016.

“Comune Conversation in Piers Plowman and the Sermons of MS Longleat 4,” Sixth International Piers Plowman Society Conference, Seattle, WA, July 2015.

Student Government Association School of Liberal Arts Faculty Member of the Year, April 2022, April 2010, April 2009, and April 2007.

Student Government Association Recognition of Distinguished Service Award, April 2014.

Marist College Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, September 2012.

Student Government Association Overall Full-time Faculty Member of the Year, March 2012.