Degrees: Ph.D, Tufts University (English); M.A., Tufts University (English); B.A., Brown University (Women Studies/Modern Culture and Media)
Expertise: English Renaissance Literature including Shakespeare, Critical Theory, Queer Theory, Modernist Literature and Poetics, Rhetoric and Composition
Awards and Fellowships: SMFA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012; Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Tufts University; Fellowship on Renaissance Literature and Electronic Technology, Tufts University; Teaching Fellowship from the Academic Resource Center and English Department, Tufts University; Center For Humanities and Technology Fellowship, Tufts University; Galway Kinnell Poetry Award, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Selected Publications and Scholarship
"'the gap that we shall make in time:' Emblematics and the Queering of History in Cymbeline," forthcoming in
Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions: Reconceptualizing History in Early Modern Literature, ed. Elizabeth Kettner and Daniel Brayton, Ashgate.
'My name engrav'd herein': John Donne's Sacramental Temporality,"
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. vol. 23.4, Winter 2011.
Review of
Shakespeare and Tolerance (Cambridge University Press) by B. J. Sokol, Sixteenth Century Studies, Fall 2010
Review of
Ideas and Images of Music in English and Continental Emblem Books 1550-1700 by Elena Laura Calogero,
Renaissance Quarterly, Fall 2010
Review of
The Heart in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press) by William W. E. Slights, South Atlantic Review, Spring 2010
Review of
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism (Stanford University Press) by Regina Schwartz,
South Central Review, Spring 2010
Review of
Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature (University of Chicago) by Mary Beth Rose,
Marlowe Society of America Reviews, XXIV:2, Fall 2004
"Hell and Hypertext Have No Limits: Electronic Editing and the Crises in Criticism,"
Early Modern Literary Studies, January, 2000 (also published in
Text Technology, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn, 1999)
Image Conscious: Iconoclasm and the Reformation of Time in Early Modern English Literature, book manuscript in progress.
Electronic Publications:
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: An Electronic Edition,(www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/Marlowe.html) Includes my own (modernized) version of Doctor Faustus with original links to sources. Published/edited at the Perseus Project, 1998-2001
Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, New Variorum electronic edition, co-editor, Perseus Project / MLA (Modern Language Association) New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, 1998-2000
Shakespeare's Richard III, New Variorum electronic edition, editor, Perseus Project, 1998
The Julius Caesar Site: Electronic Shakespeare, includes New Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and links to sources, editor, Perseus Project, 1997