I work at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and research early medieval western manuscripts containing the legend of saint Christopher.

I do this because I’m interested in how manuscripts were made and used in this period, and in how stories changed and were used in different ways at different times. Christopher’s story is brilliant , and highly unstable, and this means I get to look at all sorts of different manuscripts and how they work with him.

I also teach courses to BA and MA students. Along with a standard introduction to Medieval Literature, I currently teach a course on Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. Upcoming teaching will be on Jews and Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon England, and on understanding the presentation of masculinity in Beowulf.