Books
Monograph · Columbia University Press, 2025
Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being
Gender, Theory, and Religion series · Columbia University Press
A study of well-being in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love, bringing medieval devotional literature into dialogue with post-Heideggerian phenomenology and the medical humanities. Reviewed in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Social History of Medicine, and the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.
Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize, 2026
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Co-edited critical edition · Liverpool University Press, forthcoming July 2026
Richard Whitford's A Work for Householders
Edited with Alex Da Costa · Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies: The Syon Abbey Editions Series
A critical edition of Richard Whitford's influential early sixteenth-century guide to lay devotional practice, produced at Syon Abbey. The edition situates the text within the religious and manuscript culture of late medieval England.
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2026
'Bringing the Hands to Mind: Embodied Attention in Chinese Buddhist and Latin Christian Hand Mnemonics'
Numen: International Journal for the History of Religions
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'Mysticism and the Phenomenology of Health'
In The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and Medical Humanities · Routledge
2025
'On Frustration: Reading Margery Kempe in the Classroom'
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession
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