Degrees: PHD, 2005, Univ Texas Austin; MA, 1998, Ohio State Univ; BA, 1996, Ohio Wesleyan Univ

Bio:

I completed my Ph.D. in English Literature in 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin, where I specialized in early modern literature and culture with a secondary emphasis in women, gender, and literature. Prior to that, I earned a Masters degree in English from The Ohio State University in 1998 and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1996. As an undergraduate at OWU, I played varsity Volleyball and Basketball and was a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.

At Hofstra, I teach Shakespeare (English 115 and 116), Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (English 112), Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature (English 117), Ways of Reading (English 100), and the early British Literature survey (English 41), which covers works from the 5th century to 1798. I also teach graduate-level Shakespeare courses (ENGL 291 A and U)

Research: Shakespeare and early modern drama, poetry, and epic; military history in England and Scotland; British Nationalism(s); women's writing; print and manuscript culture.

Recent Courses Taught:

• ENGL 14, ENGL 100, ENGL 115, ENGL 112, ENGL 115, ENGL 116, ENGL 117, ENGL 291A, ENGL 291U.

Scholarly Publications:

FORTHCOMING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Coats and Conduct: The Materials of Military Obligation in Shakespeare's Henry Plays," Modern Philology 109 (February 2012).
• "Jockeying Jony: Racing and [Erasing] Regional Identity in The Humourous Magistrate," Early Theatre 14.2 (December 2011).

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PRINT

• "Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the 'The Gain O' the Martialist,'" Shakespeare 7.5 (2011): 296–308.
• "New Model Armies: Recontextualizing the Camp in Margaret Cavendish's Bell in Campo," ELH 78 (2011): 657–685.
• "The King's Privates: Sex and the Soldier's Place in John Fletcher's The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618)," Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama XLVII (2008): 25–50.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

• "Teaching Margaret Cavendish's Bell in Campo," in Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth Century Women Dramatists. Eds. Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs (New York: Modern Language Association, 2010): 348–355.
• "Old Playwrights, Old Soldiers, New Martial Subjects: Shakespeare, the Cavendishes, and the Drama of Soldiery," Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections. Eds. James B. Fitzmaurice and Katherine Romack (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): 123–148.

OTHER PUBLISHED WORK

• Introduction, Notes, and Critical Bibliography, Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (New York: Simon & Schuster, June 2006).
• Curriculum Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, co-authored with Ashley E. Shannon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).