service

to the field

• editorial board, Cahiers d’études métriques, 2026–
• editor, with Alastair Bennett and Katharine Breen, Yearbook of Langland Studies, 2016–
• webmaster, New England Medieval Consortium, 2016–
• New England Medieval Consortium steering committee, 2015– (ex officio, 2018–)
• president, with Tina Montenegro, New England Medieval Consortium, 2024–26
  webmaster, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, 2017–19
• conferences organized:
  • with Nicholas Watson, Ninth International Piers Plowman Society conference, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2027
    Program Committee, Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA, March 2025
    with Tina Montenegro, New England Medieval Consortium conference, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 2024
  • with Eric J. Goldberg, New England Medieval Conference, Cambridge, MA, November 2017
  • with Joe Stadolnik, 29th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, New Haven, CT, March 2012
• conference mentorship programs:
  • Medieval Academy of America, Kalamazoo, MI, 2019
  • Scholars of Early Medieval England, Kalamazoo, MI, 2018
  • New Chaucer Society, London, 2016
  • Medieval Academy of America, Kalamazoo, MI, 2016

to the university

• Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities advisory board, 2020–
• Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series in Literature and Culture selection committee, 2014–
• Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences (MCAS) Graduate Program Directors committee, 2018–20 (ex officio); 2021–24 (ex officio)
• MCAS Graduate Educational Policy Committee, 2020–23
• Academic Technology Advisory Board, 2018–21
• Halftime retreat, 2019
• Order of the Cross and Crown (MCAS honor society) induction ceremony keynote speaker, 2017
• MCAS Educational Policy Committee, 2016

to the department

• founder and (with Benjamin Paul) organizer, Poetics Reading Group, 2022–
• Awards and Prizes committee, 2016–18; 2021– (ex officio)
• Honors program director, 2024–27
• junior faculty mentor, 2021–22; 2022–23; 2025–26
• Ph.D. teaching mentor, 2018–19; 2020; 2021–22; 2023–24; 2025–26
• faculty adviser, group for first-generation and/or low-income graduate candidates in the liberal arts, 2019–25
• Ph.D. program director, 2021–24
• Planning and Executive committee, 2015–17 (appointed); 2018–20 (ex officio); 2021–24 (ex officio)
• Admitted Eagles information session host, 2018; 2019; 2022
• chair, subcommittee for drafting new English major requirement relating to Blackness, 2020–21
• M.A. program director, 2018–20
• Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar North, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
• M.A. program associate director, 2017–18
• Honors committee, 2015–17