Second Year MA Students

My interests cross philosophy and the history of ideas with late medieval poetry. In my writing, I aim to use philosophy to read more closely poetic moments of aporia, unhappiness, and grief; and to lay a foundation from which to explore a poem’s engagement with the ideas and abstractions that influence it and that are put under pressure by the emotion of a poem’s literary form. This reveals how the poem contributes to the history of the idea that it invokes, even as the idea surpasses geographical and temporal boundaries. My recent essays use this method to connect Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (c. 1392) with his translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae (On the Consolation of Philosophy, c. 1380) and the C text of William Langland’s Piers Plowman (c. 1390) with Aristotle’s Politics (c. 350 BC) and Augustine of Hippo’s De libero arbitrio voluntatis (On Free Choice of the Will, c. 388). My other interests are in medieval educational practices, classical reception, Global Middle Ages, late antique philosophy, and literary theory. My educational journey fosters a passion for student success and retention.

I currently serve as member and program assistant of the Medieval Academy of America 2025 Meeting Graduate Programming Steering Committee. During my undergraduate degree, I served as an invited member of the Liberal Arts Student Advisory Group and I completed summer tutorials in literature and philosophy at University of Oxford in 2022 on a continuing education scholarship awarded by the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. 

I am in my eighth year working full-time in higher education and I currently work full-time as BC's English Department Administrative Assistant.