Administrative Positions
2017-Present: Co-Chair, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council (University Level)
2014-2015, 2016-2018: Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ISSG)
Spring 2015: Co-Chair, Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB)
2013-2014: Chair, Co-Founder (Initiator), Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB)
Academic Positions
2012-Present: Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
2004-2012: Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Other Positions
2014-2018: Executive Committee: Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
2013-14, 2021-22, Executive Committee, IGSS
2004-present: Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies, formerly the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (Initiator, Co-Founder)
2015-present: Co-Chair Affect Studies University Seminar, #777
Service Experience
Review Committee, Provost’s Committee for LGBTQ Recruitments (Spring, 2020)
Chair, Hiring committee for Junior Medievalist Position, English and Comparative Lit (2018-19)
Hiring Committee for Junior Medievalist Position, Art History (2018-19)
Graduate Program Review Committee, English and CL, 2017-2018.
A&S: Witness for tenure case (for Fall 2017).
Lionel Trilling Lecture Committee, 2006-present.
Promotion and Tenure Committee: Chair of PTC subpanel, Fall 2016.
Hiring committee, LGBTQ Diversity Hire, Department of Religion, 2016
Hiring committee, History and IRWGS Joint Hire in American History, 2016-17, 2017-18.
Hiring committee, Dean for the School of General Studies, 2016-17
A&S: Internal ARC review Committee for IRAAS, 2015
Lenfest Junior Faculty Fund Review Committee, Fall 2015,
Provost: LGBTQ scholarship diversity initiative committee 2015;
Hiring committee, Director of Center for Teaching and Learning, 2015.
Dean’s Office: 2014, Junior Faculty Fellowship Committee, Working Group for Humanities Initiative
Committee Member, Provost’s Grant Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, Fall 2014
Founder, Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB), Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. Chair, 2013-2014; co-Chair 2014-2015. http://fas.columbia.edu/jfab
Personnel Committee, Department of English 2014-2015
Institute for Research of Women and Gender: Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2013-2014.
Review committee for the Class of 1939 Summer Research Fellowships, 2013; and for IRWGS Women’s and Gender Studies Award, 2013.
Hiring Committee, for Junior Faculty Position in the long eighteenth century, 2010-2011.
Hiring Committee, for Junior Faculty Position in Middle English Literature, 2008-2009.
Executive Committee (elected), Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Columbia University 2006-2009.
-Committee on Departmental Fundraising (subcommittee of ECFAS).
Interdepartmental Committee on French and Francophone Studies, 2006-present.
Committee for the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Columbia University Queen Wilhelmina Project for the Study of the Dutch-Speaking World, 2011-2015.
Initiator and co-Founder of the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies formerly the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium in New York and the surrounding Tri-State area. The Colloquium involves core universities and includes a lecture series, workshops (for faculty and students), and international conferences (in conjunction with Clare Lees at King’s College London). The Colloquium also focuses on curriculum development for students of Old English literature and culture in the Consortium.
Events have included:
- Workshop for faculty and students at King’s College on Race (2019)
- Yearly graduate student conferences (including Yale, University of Connecticut, Harvard, Toronto, and U.C. Berkeley)
- Lecture series and workshops
- Two international conferences organized by King’s College London (2006, 2008)
- A panel at the International Conference on Medieval Studies (2006)
- A panel at the Medieval Academy Conference (2007)
Co-Organizer and Co-Founder of the Graduate Student Theory Reading Group at Columbia.
Organizer and Participant in three “Medieval Conversations” with Carolyn Walker-Bynum (November, 2007), Sara Poor (March, 2006), and Amy Hollywood (March, 2005) at Columbia.
