Alexander L. Kaufman is the Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Ball State University where he teaches in the Honors College. He is the author of Christmastime Texts and the Popularity of the Robin Hood Tradition (Arc Humanities Press, 2025), The Historical Literature of the Jack Cade Rebellion (Ashgate 2009; repr. Routledge, 2016), co-editor of Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren (Medieval Institute Publications, 2016) and Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon (Routledge, 2019), and editor of British Outlaws of Literature and History: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Figures from Robin Hood to Twm Shon Catty (McFarland, 2011). He co-founded the journal The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies and also serves as co-administrator for the scholarly blog Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web. He serves as co-editor of Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest. He is also a general editor of the book series Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture for Routledge Publishing. His research and teaching interests include outlaws from the medieval period to the present day, the Robin Hood tradition, historical writing and medieval chronicles, food studies, Chaucer, Arthuriana, and medievalisms.