Scholarship

Click here for my C.V. and a complete list of my publications, presentations, and current projects. Here are a few highlights:

My first book, Metropolitan Tragedy: Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England (2015), explores the relationship between theatrical tragedy and actual tragedy in 16th- and 17th-century London. I argue that early modern English tragedy is an urban genre. Understanding this connection is necessary to a full and accurate history of tragedy as a theoretical concept, a dramatic practice, and a cultural idea and lived experience. I researched and wrote this book with the generous support of a year-long fellowship for faculty at Hispanic-serving institutions from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts (2024) is available as an open-educational resource from Edinburgh University Press. Here you’ll find my and Elizabeth Williamson’s theory of pedagogical situation, which takes into consideration the identities, geographies, and experiences of faculty. Chapters offer a range of personal frameworks and student-tested tactics for fostering social justice at your institutions and in your classrooms.

Milton’s Moving Bodies (2024) received the Irene Samuels Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America. In our introduction, Rachel Trubowitz and I make the case for attending to the dynamic motions of bodies — textual, human, angelic, and otherwise — in the writing of John Milton and its afterlives. My chapter, “Snaking the Path: Disability, Pedagogy, Justice,” puts Alexis Smith’s 1994 art installation Snake Path into conversation with Milton’s Paradise Lost to better understand what it might mean for education to “repair the ruins of our first parents.”

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