About MeI am a chaplain, writer, and mom living in southwest Virginia with a passion for exploring intersections between literature, therapy, ministry, and the ever-fascinating medieval mind.
My background in English has taken me on a journey to explore the writing of Bernard of Clairvaux, the 12th century French abbot whose exposition of the Song of Songs text continues to delight and inform in current scholarship. I am currently writing my dissertation on his tropological vision of Cistercian spirituality as represented by the bride figure in the Song of Songs as well as his use of maternality and breastfeeding imagery in his writing as a whole. |
I have been blessed and privileged to study abroad and engage with multiple scholarship programs and am passionate about giving back to the community in my transplanted home state of Virginia. I am pursuing further research and study in the realms of therapy and chaplaincy as a college chaplain and part-time military chaplain. When I am not writing or reading one of the many books taking up space in our 1840s home, I am watching old tv shows with my husband James or reading picture books with my two sweet boys, Jimmy and Barney. |