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Recent Writing

"The dirtiest story I know": Chaucer and the Big Bang Theory

What is Chaucer doing in this show about sexist nerds? 

Kristen Haas Curtis

"Chaucer Here and Now" at the Bodleian Libraries

I was thrilled to contribute to this exhibition, curated by Professor Marion Turner, which also features some of the first public displays of children's Chaucers at the Bodleian! It highlighted some of my work on Virtual Chaucer, as well as the incredible cartoons of my colleague here at UNIBE, Kristen Haas Curtis. 

"Be My (Obscene) Teenage Dream: Scribal Variants and the Merchant's Tale"

When an infamously young heroine gets aged down, this manuscript gets pretty creepy. 

"For children of all ages"

Why we love the books we read in youth. Review of Sam Leith's The Haunted Wood (2024) for the TLS. 

"New old stories"

"Elizabeth Garner’s new collection of folk tales captures many a moment of daylight, yet it is darkness that runs through and around and under each of the fifteen tales..." Review of Lost and Found (2022) for the TLS. 

From Spare Oom to War Drobe (book review)

What does it mean to reread a beloved childhood book series? Review of Katherine Langrish's From Spare Oom to War Drobe (2021) for the TLS. 

Marcia Williams, Here Bygynneth Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (2007)

Unknowing Readers Reading Rape

On children's adaptations of Chaucer's notoriously violent Wife of Bath's Tale. 

"The art of science publishing"

The SFI Press on bringing aesthetics into academic books. 

"Zing and zeal and talking points"

Gender, politics, and U.S. political candidates' children's books.

"Up to his old tricks"

Review of Reynard the Fox and Aesop's Fables for the TLS. 

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