Areas of Expertise
British fascination with the medieval North
Folklore studies
Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia
Myth and mythography
Old Norse-Icelandic literature
Scandinavian national romanticism
Education
PhD, University of California – Berkeley, 2006
Specializations: Old Norse-Icelandic literature, folklore on and off the Internet, and nineteenth-century Norwegian literature and culture.

Articles on: Irruptions of the past and the supernatural in Icelandic sagas; Out-Thoring Thor in the Great Saga of Olaf Tryggvason; Ibsen's Dramatic Realism and the publication of folklore collections; The Icelandic reception of Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland.

Major courses taught: Nordic Mythology; The Medieval Icelandic Saga; Legend; Myth; Old Norse-Icelandic Language