College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

My research interests are in Renaissance literature and drama, with a concentration on performativity, belief, and performance environment. I have published on Shakespeare and ceremony in Henry V, the performance of confession in Hamlet, the intersection of economics and virtue in the plays of dramatist Philip Massinger, on poets Phineas Fletcher and Richard Corbett, and on early modern ballads. I am finishing a book manuscript: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street: The Grounds of Belief in Renaissance Performance. I am also beginning a project on the political dimensions of Shakespeare adaptations in modern ballet, and another project that asks what the platonic notion of “free” (unfettered, rational, poetic) speech has to do with “free” speech as it exists in early modern political thought (parrhesia, licentia).