Faculty & Staff

BA, MA, University of Michigan; PhD, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Webmaster for the Missouri Folklore Society, Managing Editor, GHLL. Areas of publishing, research and teaching include historical- and sociolinguistics, medieval studies (Arthuriana, Chaucer, Beowulf and the Gawain-poet), mythology, folklore, comparative oral tradition, creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), rhetoric and writing, German language, history of medicine and medical education.