Publications

Book:
Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory’s Morte Darthur. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Reviews: Speculum 81.3 (2006): 865; JEGP 106.3 (2007): 411-13.

Articles:
“Prince Arthur’s Archers: Innovative Nostalgia in Early Modern Chivalry,” forthcoming Arthurian Literature.
(With Su Fang Ng) “Saint George, Islam, and Regional Courts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 32 (2010): 257-94 (forthcoming).
“Making Arthur Protestant: Translating Malory's Grail Quest into Spenser's Book of Holiness,” The Review of English Studies 2010; doi: 10.1093/res/hgq097.
“Why Malory’s Launcelot Is Not French: Region, Nation, and Political Identity,” PMLA 125.3 (2010): 556-71.
“Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur,” Studies in Philology 106.1 (Winter 2009): 14-31.
“Haunting Pieties: Malory’s Use of Chivalric Christian Exempla after the Grail,” Arthuriana 17.2 (2007): 28-49.
“Guinevere’s Politics in Malory’s Morte Darthur,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104.1 (January 2005): 54-79.
“Drawing on Tradition: Translation, Martial Arts, and Japanese Anime in America,” Genre 36.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2003): 189-210.
“English Knights, French Books, and Malory's Narrator,” Fifteenth-Century Studies 28 (2003): 148-72.
“Swords and Sorceresses: The Chivalry of Malory’s Nyneve,” Arthuriana 12.2 (Summer 2002): 78-96.
“Beowulf's Shoulder Pinand Wið Earm Gesæt,” English Language Notes 34.3 (March 1997): 4-10.

Review Articles:
“Malory and Caxton,” Year’s Work in English Studies 81 (2002).
“Malory and Caxton,” Year’s Work in English Studies 82 (2003).
“Malory and Caxton,” “Romance,” Year’s Work in English Studies, 84 (2005), 85 (2006), 86 (2007).

Articles Under Review:
“Reformed Dragons: Bevis of Hampton, Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene.”

Other Articles:
Deborah Bergstrand et al. “Product graphs are sum graphs,” Mathematics Magazine 65.4 (1992): 262-264.
Manuel Alfaro et al. “The Structure of Singularities in Φ-Minimizing Networks in R2,” Pacific Journal of Mathematics 149 (1991): 201-210.
Manuel Alfaro et al. “Segments Can Meet in Fours in Energy-Minimizing Networks,” Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics 22 (1990): 9-20.
Deborah Bergstrand et al. “The sum number of a complete graph,” Malaysian Mathematical Society Bulletin. Second Series 12.1 (1989): 25-28.

Work in Progress

Romance Between Region and Nation. Romance, with its concerns with power, violence, justice, and authority, helped construct regional and national identities in the middle ages, and then helped reconstruct new identities that drew upon the past after the English Reformation. Major texts include Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, Malory’s Morte Darthur, Shakespeare’s history plays, and Spenser’s Faerie Queene.

Presentations

“Reformed Dragons: Spenser’s Response to Bevis of Hampton and Le Morte Darthur,” Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies Summer Symposium, Austin, TX May 2010.
“Guyon as a Response to Launcelot,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010.
“Munday’s Robin Hood and King Richard in the Context of Adventure Plays: Extravagant Consumption, Asian Trade, and English Privateers,” Conference of the International Association of Robin Hood Studies, Rochester, 2009.
“Gawain and the New British History,” Medieval Academy of America, Chicago, 2009.
“St. George, Malory’s Galahad, and Disrupted English Nationalism,” MLA, San Francisco, CA, 2008.
“Prince Arthur’s Archers: The Vitality of Sixteenth Century Chivalry,” International Arthurian Society, Rennes, France, 2008.
“Dueling Histories: Chivalry, Fencing, and 16th-century Martial Culture,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008.
“Launcelot in the North: Borders and the Geography of Rebellion,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2007.
“Chivalric Convection: Sir Philip Sidney’s Response to Popular Fencing,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006.
(With Su Fang Ng) “Green Turks and English Knights: Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and the Islamic al-Khidr,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2005.
"The Borders of Arthur: Malory, Geography, and History," Plymouth Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth, NH, 2005.
“Admirable Failures: Palomides and Elaine in Love,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004.
“From Robin Hood to Apollo: Archery, Ascham, and Englishness,” Central Renaissance Conference, Lawrence, KS, 2003.
“Chivalric Women,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003.
“Grail Doubts,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2001.
“Swords and Sorceresses: Malory's Morgan le Fay and Nyneve,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000.
“Martial Maids and Tempestuous Termes,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies convention, Newport, RI, 1999.
“English Nationalism, French Books,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 1998.

Selected Honors and Awards

2010 NEH Summer Institute, Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America, directed by Claire Sponsler, Folger Shakespeare Library.
2010 Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies ($1200)