I am an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Chico. I have written Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (Routledge, 2006; paperback 2008), co-written with Susan Kim Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript (ACMRS, 2012), and a number of articles on the subject of monstrosity and marginality in the Middle Ages. I coedited with Peter Dendle a Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (Ashgate, 2012), and am the president of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application), accidentally founded at Kalamazoo in 2008 to create a home for walkers in the margins of academia. I am co-director of Digital Mappaemundi, with Martin Foys. I am now at work on articles on Satan in the Junius 11 manuscript, the Franks Casket, and images of Jews on medieval world maps. I was born and raised in New York, the son and grandson of artists, and in a family of writers of one sort and another. My work with manuscripts, primarily those in the collections of Cambridge, Oxford and the British Library, has given me a sense of tangible connection to the distant past. The charge I feel as my fingers gently touch the edges of folios, where the vellum has been darkened by the touch of hundreds of readers over a thousand years, is incomparable.