About
My work takes me towards encounters with 12th- and 13th-century romances and lyrical compositions in a variety of medieval romance vernaculars (principally Old French, but I have experience in Old Occitan and Old Catalan as well). I am particularly interested in exploring technologies of authorship in vernacular texts, considering how a heterogeneous array of authorial subject-positions were formed within medieval discourses on knowledge and subjectivity. I’m also fascinated by concurrent developments in rhetorical theory and biblical hermeneutics in Latin in order to reconstruct how medieval thought defined, delineated, organized, and inter-related fields of knowledge, both scientific and literary. More recently, I’ve been drawn towards phenomena and objects that constructed medieval individuals as members of groups (clerics, scholastics, preachers, but also the tension between asceticism and pastoral care.)
In my free time, I enjoy baking, typography, and calligraphy — I’d be happy to chat about proper ductus when writing in a bastard script, appropriate ruling and margins, and whether you should breathe on the glue for your illuminated initial capital.
