MEDIEVALIST

EDUCATION

M.PHIL MEDIEVAL STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

April 2021

Constantina Maxwell Scholarship

B.A. ENGLISH, PURDUE UNIVERSITY

4.00 GPA, Honors with Highest Distinction
Dean’s List

May 2019

RECOGNITION

FULBRIGHT GRANT ALTERNATE

2020-21

CONSTANTIA MAXWELL SCHOLARSHIP

August 2019

PURDUE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE AWARD & KNEALE AWARD FOR FILM AND POP CULTURE

CHAPELLE FELLOWSHIP

April 2019

PRESENTATIONS

International Conference of Medieval Studies

PODCASTING PREMODERNITY PANELIST

Maniculum Podcast, Spring 2023

Coding Medieval Worlds 3

"WHAT LIES BENEATH: HOW PENTIMENT WRITES (AND REWRITES) HISTORY"

Keynote Speaker, February 2023

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

“PUZZLE THEORY: THE SUCCESSFUL PUZZLE NARRATIVE IN DETECTIVE FICTION & GAMING”

Purdue University, Spring 2019
Kneale Award for Film & Pop Culture
Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference Award, Second Place

Comitatus Premodern Graduate Symposium

“THE REALM OF THE MAGICAL IN THE ISLENDINGA SÖGUR”

Purdue University, Spring 2018

Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference

"THE MORAL CENTER OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE LORD OF THE RINGS"

Purdue University, Spring 2019

Comitatus Premodern Graduate Symposium

“THE PRESENT IMPORTANCE OF TOLKIEN’S THE LORD OF THE RINGS”

Purdue University, Spring 2019

Early Atlantic Reading Group Graduate Symposium

“UTOPIA CREATED, DYSTOPIA DESTROYED: THE FAILED PIRATE REPUBLIC OF LIBERTALIA”

Purdue University, Spring 2018

Queens and Empresses in Early Modern Europe Symposium

“ISABELLA D’ESTE & CONSUMER CULTURE: PROMOTING PRESTIGE THROUGH SHOPPING”

Purdue University, Spring 2019
Symposium Organizer

Seattle University Spring Philosophy Conference

Seattle University, Spring 2016

“THE HAPPINESS QUESTION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ARISTOTLE, BOETHIUS, AND AUGUSTINE”

LANGUAGES

OLD ENGLISH, Beginner
Trinity College Dublin, Michaelmas Term 2019

Assesment though sight translation, comprehension, and prepared translations.

MIDDLE ENGLISH, Proficient

Trinity College Dublin, Michaelmas Term 2019

Assessment through sight translation and comprehension.

LATIN, Skilled

Latin 202, Purdue University 4.00 GPA Spring 2018

3 years teaching Latin at various levels.

10 years formal instruction from grades 3-12 and university.

Caeser’s De Bello Gallico, Cicero’, Ovid’s Amores, & Virgil’s Aeneid.

ITALIAN, Beginner

ITAL 115, 125, 135, Seattle University; 4.00 GPA