Research interests

My primary research interest focuses on early modern English literature, liturgy, technical writing, and translations. Much of my scholarship seeks to combine these interests, from my master’s thesis on Alexander Pope’s commentary on Homer’s Iliad to my work on The Book of Common Prayer as technical writing for an oral-aural culture.

I am currently working on a historical materialist inquiry into the role of The Book of Common Prayer in relation to the emergence of English capitalism, colonialism, and empire. I welcome inquiries concerning research collaboration.

I authored Lighten Our Darkness: A Commentary on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer with Samuel Fornecker (IVP Academic, forthcoming 2028), the first commentary on the BCP focusing on the rhetoric and usability of a book meant to be performed. Our intervetions in the current scholarship include (1) Demystifying the text with up-to-date historiography that contextualizes the book in Early Modern England and the contemporaneous emergence of British capitalism and colonialism; (2) Correcting errors, misconceptions, hagiography, and oversights in the older commentaries; (3) Identifying previously unrecognized sources; (4) Demonstrating how the struggle over the BCP’s enforcement contributed to the formation of a new religious identity in Early Modern England that would later be called Anglicanism; (5) and intervening in the ongoing debate over “Anglican identity” by arguing for a dialectical, diachronic understanding of identity.