Editorial Board Member, Shakespeare Bulletin, Marlowe Studies
Treasurer, Marlowe Society of America
Associate Professor of English
Education:
- PhD., Boston University
- M.A., Boston University
- B.A., Lehigh University
Areas of Interest:
- Elizabethan Literature
- History of the Book
- Performance History
- Shakespeare on Film
Books:
Robert Greene. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011.
Writing Robert Greene: Essays on England’s First Notorious Professional Writer (with Edward Gieskes). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
Articles:
“Thomas Hacket and the Ventures of an Elizabethan Publisher.” The Library. 7th Series 10.3 (2009): 257-71.
“Case Studies in Reading 1: Reading the Texts.” Continuum Handbook to Shakespeare Studies. Eds. Andrew Hiscock and Stephen Longstaffe. London: Continuum, 2009. 71-92.
“[I]ygging vaines” and “riming mother wits”: Marlowe, Clowns and the Early Frameworks of Dramatic Authorship.” Early Modern Literary Studies. 13.2, Special issue 16 (October, 2007) 8.1-37.
“Wartime Shakespeare: The Strange Case of Bataan (1943).” Literature/Film Quarterly. 35.2 (2007):129-139.
(with Jennifer Munroe) “Seasoning the Sonnet, Playing Poets: ‘The Sonnet Slam’ as Extra-Pedagogical Event.” Pedagogy 7.2 (2007): 251-257.
“The ‘Extremities’ of Sumptuary Law in Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 19 (2006): 227-234.
“Jones’s Pen and Marlowe’s Socks: Richard Jones” Tamburlaine the Great (1590), and the Beginnings of English Dramatic Literature.” Studies in Philology 102.3 (2005).
“Richard Jones (fl. 1564-1613): Elizabethan Printer, Bookseller and Publisher.” Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 12.3 (2001): 153-184.
Courses Taught:
- ENGL 3050: Shakespeare in Performance
- ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 3301: British Literature Survey I
- ENGL 4116: Early Shakespeare
- ENGL 4117: Late Shakespeare
- ENGL 4131: Early English Drama
- ENGL 6111: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
- ENGL 6680: Shakespeare on Film