My research interests include Early Modern English drama, particularly Shakespeare, and the intersections between literature, culture, gender, sexuality, marriage law, and politics. I teach Shakespeare, late 16th and early 17th century English drama, and early modern English women writers; women’s and gender studies, and feminist theory . Most recently, Emily G. Sherwood and I published Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies, a collections of letters and documents chronicling the marital disputes between Elizabeth and her husband, Anthony. My second book, Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, came out with Routledge in February 2017. And my first book, Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy was published in 2003 by the University of Delaware Press. I am also an Editor of the series “Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories,” for Medieval Institute Publications.

“Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories,” MIP, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650).  The editor is interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate the discursive production of gender, sex, and race in early modern English drama in relation to material, historical, social, cultural, and political structures; that ask questions about justice and ethics, domestic politics, rhetoric and forms of care; that engage material culture and forms of alterity, transnational encounters and colonialism; that examine changes to and the effects of law, monarchy, the reformation, rebellion and the republic on dramatic texts. The series is aimed at the study of early modern drama from theoretical readings that locate new arguments, new ways of thinking and that also challenge notions of universality.  “Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories” welcomes submissions grounded in feminist, presentist, queer, anti-racist, transnational, transhistorical, class or affect and disability studies. 

To submit a proposal or completed manuscript to be considered for publication by Medieval Institute Publications or to learn more about the series, please contact Tyler Cloherty, acquisitions editor for the series

BOOKS

Co-Editor, Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies.  Routledge, 2021.  “The Early Modern Englishwoman in Print, 1500-1750:  Contemporary Editions.”  Co-Editor with Emily Sherwood, University of Rochester.

Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays:  Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal. Routledge, 2017.  “Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.” Now available in paperback!

Fantasies of Female Evil:  The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy.  Newark: U of Delaware P, 2003.

ARTICLES

“Feminist Authorship Studies.” Invited for publication in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Authorship. Edited by Rory Laughnane and Will Sharpe. Oxford, UP. pp. 734-759. Forthcoming.

“Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819.

“‘Let’s Consult together’: Women’s Agency and the Gossip Network in The Merry Wives of Windsor.”  Invited for publication in The Merry Wives of Windsor:  New Critical Essays. Eds.  Evelyn Gajowski and Phyllis Rackin.  New York: Routledge, 2015. 38-50.

“‘Proceed in Justice’: Narratives of Marital Betrayal in The Winter’s Tale.”  Invited for publication in Justice, Women and Power in English Renaissance Drama, Edited by Andrew J. Majeski and Emily Detmer-Goebel.  Madison and Teaneck, N.J.:  Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2009.  46-65.

“Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam.”   Early Modern  Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 3, (2008):  61-103.

 “Looking for Goneril and Regan.”  Privacy, Domesticity and Women in Early Modern England, ed. Corinne Abate. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK:  Ashgate, 2003.  167-198.

“‘Blood Will Have Blood’: Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth’s Gender Trouble.”  J x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism.  2.2 (1998): 179-207.

“King Lear’s ‘Immoral’ Daughters and the Politics of Kingship.”  Exemplaria:  A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  8.2 (1996):  375-400.

“Staging the Feminine Performance of Desire:  Masochism in The Maid’s Tragedy.”   Papers on Language and Literature.  31.3 (1995):  313-333.