Scholarly Articles

  •      “Killing Authors: Skelton’s Dreadful Bouge of Court,” in Form and Reform: Reading the Fifteenth Century, edited by Kathleen Tonry and Shannon Gayk (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), 180-96
  •     “Visionary Writing in England, 1534-1550s,” The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Mysticism, edited by Vincent Gillespie and Samuel Fanous (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 249-6
  •   “’Not Just a Museum’? Not so Fast,” for a special volume (“Something Fearful”: Medievalist Scholars on the “Religious Turn” in Literary Criticism) of Religion and Literature 42 (2010), 141-61
         ‘“And that was litel nede”: Poetry’s Need in Robert Henryson’s Fables and Testament of Cresseid’, in Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature, edited by Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), 193-210
        “Introduction,” co-written with Brian Cummings, for Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press), 1-9
           “Place,” for Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, edited by Brian Cummings and James Simpson, Twenty-First Century Approaches, 2 (Oxford University Press), 95-112
        “Premodern Shakespeare,” co-written with Sarah Beckwith, for Premodern Shakespeare, edited by Sarah Beckwith and James Simpson, a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies40 (2010): 2-5
        “Rhetoric, Conscience and the Playful Positions of Sir Thomas More” for The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, edited by Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 121-36 (This volume won the Sixteenth Century Society's Roland H. Bainton Prize, 2010)
        “Sixteenth-Century Fundamentalism and the Specter of Ambiguity, or The Literal Sense is Always a Fiction” for Writing Fundamentalism, ed. Klaus Stiersorfer and Axel Stähler (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), 133-54
        “John Lydgate,” in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Literature, edited by Larry Scanlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 205-16
        “The Economy of Involucrum: Idleness in Reason and Sensuality,” in Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee, edited by Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager (University of Toronto Press, 2009), 390-414
        “Vernacular Literary Consciousness, c. 1100 – c. 1500: French, German and English Evidence,” with Kevin Brownlee, Tony Hunt, Ian Johnson, Alastair Minnis, and Nigel F. Palmer, in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, volume 2, The Middle Ages, edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson, paperback edition (incorrectly not listed as such in the hardback edition), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 422-71
        “Tyndale as Promoter of Figural Allegory and Figurative Language: A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments,” for Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 245 (2008): 37-55