About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of English at Mount Marty University, where I specialize in early modern literature and political theology. I also serve as Director of Assessment and as a fellow with the Teaching and Learning Center. My research examines how literary and rhetorical forms shaped, and were shaped by, the institutional and economic structures of the seventeenth century. I am also developing a TEI-based digital edition of The Letters of John Chamberlain, an open-access archive of early modern correspondence. This work sits where literary history meets political theology and the longer history of capitalism.
Much of this work draws me into scripture and theological tradition. I come to these texts as a secular scholar, attentive to the social and political life they have shaped rather than to their devotional content. The traditions I study are not my own, but they have shaped the institutions and languages I am trying to understand.
This site is a record of my work as a scholar and teacher, including the ongoing development of The Chamberlain Letters.