My research and teaching interests center on the intersection of literature and politics, with primary areas of focus in seventeenth-century English literature (particularly Milton and women writers), and gender and sexuality studies more broadly. My first book, Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century England, investigated how writers from across the political spectrum explored the promise and the threats of using family as a means to stabilize politics. Moving beyond the much-discussed patriarchal analogy, this study drew on feminist and queer theory to illuminate the temporal stakes of family politics, giving particular attention to the explicit and implicit debates over genealogy as a literary and governmental form. My new book project deploys an inter-historical approach, reconsidering the writing of seventeenth-century women in relation to the English civil wars, as well as the ways that this writing has been appropriated during other moments of war, including our own moment of global conflict. I have also co-edited a collection of interdisciplinary and theoretical essays entitled Milton Now, which expands discussions of Milton beyond the dominant historicist paradigm while simultaneously engaging wider questions about the current state of literary studies. My work in sexuality studies includes the co-editing of a special issue of Criticism on the work of Eve Sedgwick. I am also working on new essays on Milton and queer studies, the first of which will appear in June 2017. In addition to offering undergraduate and graduate classes in English, I teach both the undergraduate class WS 101 and the theories and methods graduate seminar in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.