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 (2026): https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-025-00400-2
“But Did You See the Handkerchief? Celia and the Problem of Inattentional Blindness in Ben Jonson’s Volpone,” Ben Jonson Journal 32.1 (2025): 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 (2023): 19-39, https://www.heliotropia.org/20/brock.pdf
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
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