She is a renowned scholar of the literary works of 14th-century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, and she specializes in medieval and early modern texts and books, with a focus on the shift from manuscript to print, the relationship between book history, literary criticism, and literary theory, and the digitization of medieval books.
A full transcript of the podcast is available.
Also see this profile of Alex's work from a 2007 interview we did, as well as Alex's website.