Chapter: “He Has Come, Visible and Hidden”: Jalal al-din Rumi’s Poetic Presence and Past, A Companion to World Literature. Edited by Ken Seigneurie. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Description: An overview of key themes, issues, and materials for the study of (Mowlana) Jalal al-din Rumi.

Article: “Teaching Rumi in a Time of Revolution", Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (S.M.A.R.T), Issue 27, Vol. 2, Fall 2020.

Description: Engages with key issues brought up in a classroom environment during the 2016 election cycle at a liberal arts college in western North Carolina related to the study of Islam, mysticism, identity, and subjectivity.

Article: “Between Cynicism and Sincerity in the Study of Sufism and Politics”, English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 56, Issue 1, April 2018.

Description: A position paper on methodology in research into medieval Sufism first presented as part of the Mediterranean Seminar workshop on “Comparative Mysticisms".

Dissertation Excerpt: “A Persian Qurʾan?: The Masnavi-e Ma‛navi as Scripture”, @UNC-Chapel Hill, 2018.

Description: The title page, abstract, table of contents, and introduction to my dissertation, successfully defended within the Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, in December of 2018. To obtain more information about the dissertation, please visit the “Contact” section of the website and use the links there to get in touch.