curriculum vitae

This academic cv is a shortened, hypertext version of my paper cv. The pdf download represents a fuller version.

This cv was last updated on 28 August 2010.

University of Toronto
1. Medieval Studies, PhD programme 2007–present
  Dissertation topic: seasons and the human domain in early English and early Scandinavian literature
University of Iceland [transcript]
1. Medieval Icelandic Studies, Master of Arts programme 2006–2007
  Master of Arts degree awarded October 2007
  Dissertation topic: winter in Old Norse literature
University of Groningen [transcript]
1. English Language and Culture, Master of Arts programme 2005–2006
  Master of Arts degree awarded with distinction June 2006
  Dissertation topic: the question of Boethian influence on Old English poetry
2. English Language and Culture, Bachelor of Arts programme 2001–2005
  Propaedeutic degree awarded with distinction July 2002
  Academic year 2003–2004 spent as an exchange student at the University of Helsinki
  Dissertation topic: the lord–warrior relationship in The Battle of Maldon
  Bachelor of Arts degree awarded with distinction June 2005
3. Philosophy, parttime Bachelor of Arts programme 2002–2005
  Propaedeutic degree awarded November 2005
Windesheim College, Zwolle, the Netherlands [transcript]
1. English Teacher Training College 2000–2001
  Propaedeutic degree awarded August 2001

Instructor of Old English (ENG240Y) at the English Department, University of Toronto 2010-present
Instructor of Ecclesiastical Latin at the Oratory of St Philip Neri, Toronto 2009
Freelance academic translator German–English, 2009
Teaching assistant of German for Reading Purposes at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto 2008–present
Research assistant at the Dictionary of Old English, 2007–2010 (tasks included lemmatisation, proofreading, and webdesign)
Contributor to the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies 2006–present
Freelance tutor of academic English writing 2001–2006

"The Dream Women of Gísla saga." Scandinavian Studies 81.1 (spring 2009): 47–72. [abstract, purchase]
"Trǫll and Ethnicity in Egils saga." Á austrvega: Saga and East Scandinavia. Preprint Papers of the 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, 9th–15th August 2009. Eds. Agneta Ney, Henrik Williams, and Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist. Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskaps skriftserie 14. Gävle: Gävle UP, 2009. 2.560–7. [abstract, download]
"Boethian Similitude in Deor and The Wanderer." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 109.2 (2008): 205–22. [abstract, download]
"Doctrine and Paradigm: Two Functions of the Innovations in Genesis B." Studia Neophilologica 79.2 (December 2007): 113–18. [abstract, preprint, publisher]

Anglo–Saxon and early Scandinavian literature, with emphases on: