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Research and Teaching Interests<\/b><\/h3>\n

Drama, theatre history, early modern literature, performance studies, adaptation, film<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cPerforming Babies and the Properties of Race and Ethnicity.\u201d Shakespeare <\/em>19, no. 1 (2023): 93-107.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cShakespeare\u2019s Babies: \u2018Things to Come at Large.\u2019\u201d In Shakespeare\u2019s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance<\/em>, edited by Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky, 79-90. New York: Routledge, 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cChaucer\u2019s Jailer\u2019s Daughter: Character and Source in The Two Noble Kinsmen<\/em>.\u201d Shakespeare Quarterly<\/em> 69, no. 1 (2018): 35-56<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Book Reviews<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Review of Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race<\/em>, No\u00e9mie Ndiaye, Theatre History Studies<\/em> 44 (2025). (Forthcoming)<\/p>\n

Review of Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606<\/em>, James Shapiro, Phi Beta Kappa: The Key Reporter <\/em>(2016).<\/a><\/p>\n

Review of Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England<\/em>, Ramie Targoff, Phi Beta Kappa: The Key Reporter <\/em>(2015).<\/a><\/p>\n

Review of Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia<\/em>, Simon C. Estok, E3W Review of Books<\/em> (2014).<\/p>\n

Selected Conference Activity<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u201cLocal Giants and Ecological Scale in Jez Butterworth\u2019s Jerusalem<\/em>\u201d in \u201cPerforming Wilderness\u201d working group, American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle, WA, November 2024<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sound of Silence: Dumb Shows and Voice\u201d in \u201cShakespeare and Voice\u201d seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Portland, OR, April 2024<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Maid\u2019s Land: Structures of a Title in Beaumont and Fletcher\u2019s The<\/em> Maid\u2019s Tragedy<\/em>\u201d in \u201cEarly Modern Architecture\u201d seminar, Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL, April 2022<\/p>\n

\u201cMedieval Drama, Herod, and Titus Andronicus<\/em>\u201d in \u201cEarly Drama and Performance\u201d seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting (remote), April 2020<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Racial Mattering,\u2019 Infants, and the Royal Shakespeare Company\u201d in \u201cShakespeare, Race, and Nation: Shakespeare Performance and the UK\u201d seminar, British Shakespeare Assoc. Conference, Swansea, July 2019<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Growth Untried\u2019: Dramatic Infants and Temporal Scope,\u201d Modern Language Assoc. Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019<\/p>\n

\u201cFabric, Prams, and Jell-O: The Metonymy of Baby-Props,\u201d Modern Language Assoc. Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019<\/p>\n

\u201cPuppetry and Popery in Marlowe,\u201d Marlowe Society of America International Conference, Wittenberg, Germany, July 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cObject Lessons from Dramatic Object-Persons,\u201d in \u201cObject Lessons in Renaissance Personhood\u201d seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cPythagoras\u2019 Celestial Proportions and the Sovereign Moon of Endymion<\/em>,\u201d in \u201cCosmological Bodies\u201d seminar, Shakespeare Assoc. of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 2017<\/p>\n

Selected Professional Experiences and Accomplishments<\/b><\/h3>\n

Advanced Studies in England: summer faculty instructor for \u201cLegends of the Round Table,\u201d taught in Bath, UK, 2024<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of English, Wells College, 2021-24<\/p>\n

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in British Literature and Culture, Utah State University, 2020-2021<\/p>\n

The University of Texas at Austin: University Graduate School Continuing Fellowship; annual Outstanding Assistant Instructor Award, Dept. of English; annual Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of English<\/p>\n

Colgate University: Phi Beta Kappa; High Honors in English; High Distinction in the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48908,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/48898\/revisions\/48908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}