I’m a prolific scholar of fantasy, science fiction, and the Inklings — JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis in particular. I’m also the editor for SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2024), a book that aims to explain and outline the prevalence of a contemporary revival in medieval alliterative poetics.

My academic articles have appeared in almost every major journal dedicated to SF and fantasy, plus place like the Journal of Modern Literature, and I’ve also written around two dozen reviews and encyclopedia articles. I served five years as the reviews editor for FAFNIR; in 2020, we became the first academic journal to ever win a World Fantasy Award. I’ve also won the May Kay Bray Award from the Science Fiction Research Association.