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Old English/Anglo-Saxon
Old Norse-Icelandic
Old French
Old Saxon
Germanic Philology
Historiography
Linguistics
Philology

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

B.A., Oberlin College, 1999

Publications

Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

“Preaching, Politics, and Episcopal Reform in Wulfstan’s Early Writings.” Early Medieval Europe 23.1 (2015): 94–117.


“Reading Pronouns: An Entry to Medieval Textual Culture.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21 (2015): 113–38.


“Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014 (with Nicole Marafioti), 1–16.

“The ‘Worcester’ Historians and Eadric Streona’s Execution.” Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014, 165–80.

“Imagining Justice in the Anglo-Saxon Past: Eadric Streona, Kingship and the Search for Community.” The Haskins Society Journal 25 (2013): 125–46.

“The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject.” Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages. Ed. Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013, 131–48.

“A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona.” Heads Will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Ed. Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 53–72.

Ealles Englalandes Cyningc: Cnut’s Territorial Kingship and Wulfstan’s Paronomastic Play.” The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 14 (2010). <http://www.heroicage.org/issues/14/gates.php&gt;

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