Joe is a postdoctoral researcher and instructor at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago. He held a Junior Research Fellowship at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and a Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities while completing a Ph. D. in English at Yale. His research considers the language practices of medieval science as a repertoire of styles and genres for use across Middle English literary culture (ca. 1350-1500). His other research the medievalism of Jorge Luis Borges, medieval English book production, and Middle English readers outside of England.