Research Interests
I have published on Chaucer, Malory, medieval drama, romances, and modern fantasy writers (Tolkien, Guy Gavriel Kay).
At present, I am interested in the ways vernacular English writers in the Later Middle Ages thought language worked. We have a lot of philosophy of language in Latin, but we have very little in English. I am working on a book tentatively titled Greynes of Salt: The Image of Language in Medieval English Literature.