As a researcher, my primary area of interest is the literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, especially in the eleventh century. Much of my work has focused on Old English literature set in the Near and Middle East, and I have argued that the setting of such narratives at a distance from England and Europe provided an acceptable vehicle for considering and even criticizing politics and leadership closer to home. I am also interested in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts as a material context for the literary works I study, and in humanities computing as providing new methods for increasing and disseminating knowledge about manuscripts.

As  an instructor, I have taught  medieval literature at every level to undergraduate and graduate students and also have considerable experience  teaching writing and research skills.