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Biography:
I grew up in the Dutchtown neighborhood, south St Louis, Missouri, played American football in exchange for college tuition, managed to make a living doing international tax and estate planning out of Denver, Colorado, for a short time lived in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and in September 2023 graduated with my doctorate in history from the University of Oxford. Everything I've ever written - legal history and commentary, Elizabethan history, fiction - has been accepted for publication, and I'm simply crossing fingers that the trend continues.
Current research areas:
Thinking about exploring early modern sources in my North Atlantic bailiwick to tease out possible sufferers of misophonia (a sensory processing disorder only recently described and studied scientifically), their various and sundry coping mechanisms (e.g. solitude, fishing, solitary studies) and how such may have impacted their productivity, social lives, etc., and cases of mental breakdowns possibly rooted in the disorder. Also, following up on my thesis research, I'm still interested in consulting certain sources in the reception of Ecclesiastes in 16th century England, e.g. Pore Shakerlaye's obscure, neglected paraphrase (1551).
Recent scholarly activity:
Thesis: ‘If I could be equall with Solomon…’ - Ecclesiastes and English Practical Divinity c.1590, With Particular Reference to Henry Smith & George Gifford. The project focused on two groundbreaking, late-Elizabethan pastoral engagements with the Book of Ecclesiastes; supervised by Dr. Leif Dixon, Regent’s Park College, and Dr. Sarah Mortimer, Christ Church College, Oxford.
Recent publications:
[Me], ‘“Totquot” & Satire: As Many Snickers as You Please’, in Notes and Queries, 68.1 (March 2021), 87-89; [Me], ‘Not ‘to confound predicaments’: Loyalty and the Common Law, c. 1400-1688’, in Loyalty to the Monarchs of Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688, ed. by Matthew Ward and Matthew Hefferan (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 127-148.
Other activities:
I've begun the process of converting parts of my thesis into research articles, stay tuned.