Specializations
Shakespeare; early modern drama; theater history
Publications
“Mastering Masques of Blackness,” forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance 39 (Spring 2009); “The Fatal Contract and the Limits of Original Practices,” forthcoming in Thunder at a Playhouse: Essays on Shakespeare and the Early Modern Stage (Susquehanna Press, 2009); “Drama as Performance and Text,” forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2009); “Assisted by a Barber:’ The Court Apothecary, Special Effects, and Ben Jonson’s The Gypsies Metamorphosed,” Theatre Notebook 61.1 (2007). See also theater reviews, Shakespeare Bulletin (2006, 2007); review essay of Emmanuel Moses, Last News of Mr. Nobody: Selected Poems in Verse, French Poetry and Poetics special issue, 24.1-3 (2007); entries in The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (2007)
Work in Progress
Article on “Coriolanus and the Surface of Masculinity;” article on the religious resonances of the convention of blackface disguise, focusing on The English Moor and The Lost Lady; book manuscript on the early modern special effects most closely related to the body in performance, in particular theatrical paint.
Teaching
Shakespeare; early modern drama, literature, and culture; late medieval drama; lyric poetry. Recent courses: ENGL 204, 418, 419
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University of Illinois