Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor
About
Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania, 2005 (English)
AB, Brown University, 1998 (English & Renaissance Studies)
Postdoc, McGill University, 2005-6
Appointment: Wake Forest University, 2006-present
Visiting Graduate Student, Keble College, University of Oxford, 2003-4
I teach and write about early modern English (and a little French, Latin and Greek) poetry and poetics. I'm currently writing a book called "Barbarous Antiquities: Classical Poetry and the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern England" which investigates how Anglo-Ottoman relations unsettled English notions of classical antiquity through language, poetry, and the material text.
Last semester (Spring 2009) I taught an upper-level undergraduate English course on the same topoi, "Imagining Antiquity." The course explored early modern English interrogations of ancient Britain, Rome, the Mediterranean, and Arcadia in poetry, drama and prose. I also teach courses on Shakespeare and the Mediterranean, Writing and Materiality in Renaissance poetry, and the Epic.
This academic year I am on-leave, but will be presenting work at the annual MLA convention in Philadelphia in December 2009, and at the RSA Annual meeting in Venice in April 2010.
Selected Publications:
"The Elizabethan Cipher and Shakespeare's Lucrece," Studies in Philology 107.3, forthcoming summer 2010
" 'Sweets Compacted': Posies and the Poems of George Herbert," in Christopher Hodgkins, ed., George Herber's Travels, U of Delaware P, 2009, forthcoming.
"Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth's Urania" with Vin Nardizzi in Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe eds, Renaissance Ecofeminisms, Susquehanna UP, forthcoming
Review of "Silent Rhetoric," "Dumb Eloquence": The Rhetoric of Silence in Early Modern England, for Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming
Contact Information
Department of English
C201 Tribble Hall
Box 7387
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109
336-758-4851
