Richard is currently transforming his recent dissertation into a monograph, titled "Psychomachic Monstrosity in Beowulf,” and he is editing a collection of essays on the subject of “White Wizard Male Privilege” for Lexington Books. Richard has published an article on the word "geruni" in the Old Saxon Heliand and a forthcoming article on the rhetorical presentations of drinking and drunkenness in early medieval Old English and Anglo-Latin riddles. Richard has a forthcoming article "Teaching the Beowulf-monsters" in a collection on pedagogy and Beowulf, as well as a coauthored article discussing the Scyld episode from Beowulf in the journal, Heroic Age.