He was previously Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London.
[3] He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011, a prize "awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study, are recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise."
He has published Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages,[4] which was awarded the Beatrice White Prize of the English Association.
[5] He co-edited (with Sebastian Sobecki) Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology, and was Morton W. Bloomfield Fellow at Harvard University.
[6] In April 2024 the University of Cambridge announced that he had been elected Professor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature (1954) from October 2024.