Currently, I am Teaching Assistant Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Marco Institute, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

For the academic year 2024-2025, I hold the Carl and Betty Pforzheimer Fellowship in English and American Literature from the American Council of Learned Societies. I will be spending the year working on a project titled Colonizing the Otherworld: Scientific Racism and the Medieval Parahuman.

Previously, I have held the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and a postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities for the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, where I received my PhD in June 2020. My research in global medieval literature focuses on the interplay of the historical and the supernatural in narratives from Europe and the Middle East, particularly the Iranian world and the British Isles.

I was also a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic at Cambridge.

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My Academia.edu page

Together with N. İpek Hüner Cora and Rachel Schine, I recently edited a special issue of postmedieval entitled Islamicate Fictionalities. Currently, the issue can be accessed here. The Introduction, which my co-editors and I collaborated on, is here. And here‘s a short blurb I wrote about the cover of the issue, which features an image from a Turkish Shāhnāma.

“Dreaming the Past’s Futures’: Rhonabwy’s Dream as Chronofiction,” in Arthuriana 33.1

“Otherworld Treasure and Bardic Disguise: Recovering the Past in Medieval Welsh and Persian Literatures,” in Global Exchanges in the North Atlantic, ca. 350–1300, a cluster in Viator 51, No 1 (2020).

“Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic,” in Persian Literature as World Literature, eds. Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, & Amirhossein Vafa. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

“A Monstrous Courtship,” from The Book of Bahman, by Hakim Irānshāh ebn-e Abi-l-Khayr. Edition, translation from Persian, and introduction by Sam Lasman. Global Medieval Sourcebook.

Singing in Chains: Prison, Porter, and Transgressive Narration in Medieval Welsh Tales of the Past . Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 37 : 2017 . Eds. Celeste Andrews, Heather Newton, Joseph Shack, & Joe Wolf. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press.

I’m a member of the editorial board for postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.

I was recently interviewed for this Atlas Obscura piece by Sarah Durn, about jinn and the Well of Barhut.

I also contribute to public humanities discussions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/, focusing on Medieval Myth & Legend and Premodern Monster Studies.