About me

Long ago, I set out to be a rare book librarian and then detoured into academe.

I have an M.Phil from Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, both in in Medieval Studies, with a focus on Old English, Medieval Latin, and manuscript studies. I’ve taught at John Carroll University, Berkeley, Cornell, and the University of Maryland.

For the last dozen years I have been living in my home town, Washington, D.C., mostly working in local history and historic preservation. I provided the Latin paleography component for vHMML at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, which is the basis for the open-access paleography textbook I’m working on now.

I also teach courses and give workshops on medieval literature and paleography at local universities, for my undergraduate alma mater, and for OLLI.

Here is my C.V.