Research Areas:
- Global Medieval Storytelling
- The Italian Novella
- Early Modern Theater
- Ancient and Medieval Psychology
Education:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Princeton University
- M.A., Littérature française de la Renaissance aux Lumières, École normale supérieure, Paris IV La Sorbonne, and Paris III La Sorbonne nouvelle
- Diplôme of the École normale supérieure, Littératures et langage
- B.A., Comparative Literature, Princeton University, summa cum laude
Publications:
“Angels and Rogues: Boccaccio’s Decameron IX.3 and Its Biblical and South Asian Intertexts,” postmedieval, forthcoming.
“But Did You See the Handkerchief? Celia and the Problem of Inattentional Blindness in Ben Jonson’s Volpone,” Ben Jonson Journal 32.1: 1-24, https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2025.0386
“When Il Grasso Becomes Calandrino: La Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo and the Productive Failure of Literary Imitation,” Heliotropia 20: 19-39, https://www.heliotropia.org/20/brock.pdf
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
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