Across my research and my classes, you'll find me exploring representations of "world order" from a multitude of perspectives over time and at scale. Both literature and digital humanities provide us opportunities to think from diverse viewpoints about ecologies of belief systems and art. These slippery subjects can help us take intellectual risks and develop flexible habits of mind that can help us successfully navigate the constant change of today's "world," not to mention the labor market. Most of my scholarship and teaching focuses on ancient, medieval, and early modern literature, as well as digital humanities. I also am deeply interested in the history of science, especially insofar as its origins are literary, written in verse, conveyed through metaphors and diverse linguistic figures. The creative properties of forms of thought that will become known as chemistry, biology, and physics speak much to how we construct knowledge now. In all things, I aspire to take a classically-inspired liberal arts approach to knowledge-making.
