Areas of Research/Interest: Old English language, literature, and culture; medieval literature and culture; history of the English language; philology and historical linguistics; history of language studies; medievalism

Select Publications:

“Discovery of English: A History of Philology in the Great Nineteenth Century” (in progress)
Companion to the History of the English Language, co-edition, Blackwell 2007.
The Composition of Old English Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
"Year's Work in Old English Studies,” co-author, 2004-
"The Education of Beowulf and the Affair of the Leisure Class," in Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank, ed. Harbus and Poole, University of Toronto Press, 2005, 163-82
"Rhythm and Alliteration: Styles of Ælfric's Prose Up to the Lives of Saints" in Anglo-Saxon Styles, ed. Karkov and Brown, SUNY Press, 2003, 253-69
"A Man on the Cusp: Sir William Jones's ‘Philology' and ‘Oriental Studies,'" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 41, 1997, 160-79

Affiliations: Co-founder, Society for the Study of the History of the English Language; co-founder, Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium; International Society of Anglo-Saxonists; Medieval Academy of America; Modern Language Association; New Chaucer Society; Japan Society for Medieval English Studies

Fellowships/Honors: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies; Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University