Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor
About
Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania, 2005 (English)
AB, Brown University, 1998 (English & Renaissance Studies)
I teach and write about early modern England in relation to classical antiquity and the East. My first book, Barbarous Antiquity: Imported Language in Early Modern English Poetry, is under review. It investigates how Anglo-Ottoman relations unsettled English notions of classical antiquity through neologism, trade, and the material text. My second book project is tentatively titled Renaissance Undead: Reanimating the Ancient Past in Early Modern England. It will examine the "Renaissance" of the classical past as the resurrection and animation of dead and ancient material artifacts, from Medea's rejuvenation of Aeson to mummies, embalmed corpses, and hair bracelets.
UGA courses:
Fall 2012:
Elizabethan Poetry
Renaissance Drama
Spring 2012:
Seventeenth-Century Poetry
First Year Composition (Literary Analysis)
Fall 2011:
Graduate Seminar on the East in Early Modern Literature
Honors Introduction to Poetry
Spring 2011:
Book, Ink, Paper: The Material Text in Early Modern England
British Literature to 1700
Fall 2010:
Shakespeare (4320)
Honors Introduction to Poetry (3050H)
Recent Publications:
"Learning to Color in Hamlet," in Paul Yachnin, ed., Shakespeare's World of Words (under review).
“Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth’s Urania,” with Vin Nardizzi, in Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche eds., Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 175-194.
“ ‘Sweets Compacted’: Posies, Poesy and the Poems of George Herbert,” in Christopher Hodgkins, ed. The Travels of George Herbert (U of Delaware P, 2011), 147-162.
“The East as Poetic Commodity in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis,” Literature Compass 8.1 (January, 2011): 15-27.
“ The Elizabethan Cipher in Shakespeare’s Lucrece,” Studies in Philology 107.3 (Summer 2010): 336-359.
Book Reviews for Renaissance Quarterly.
Two articles cited in the forthcoming New Variorum edition of Shakespeare: The Poems, eds. Christa Janson and Dieter Mehl.
