Education:
Ph.D. August 1996 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. 1989 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English
B.A. 1986 University of Virginia, English
Professional Experience:
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, UNC-CH, 2006-
Instructor at The Bread Loaf School of English, 2007, 2009
Associate Professor of English Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-
Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002-2004
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Yale University, 1996-2002
Bibliography:
Books:
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Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England. Essay Collection. Co-editor with Garrett Sullivan. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) |
| Renaissance Drama, special issue, Volume 35 (2006) “Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern Drama and Performance.” Guest Co-editor with Garrett Sullivan. | |
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Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotion. Essay collection. Co-editor with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). |
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English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama. Book. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). (Paperback edition, 2006). |
Recent Articles:
Tragic Action at a Distance: Arden of Faversham,” The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Tragedy (forthcoming).
“English Epicures and Scottish Witches.” Shakespeare Quarterly 57.2 (Summer 2006).
“Moors, Race, and the Study of English Renaissance Literature: A Brief Retrospective.” Literature Compass Vol. 3 (June 2006) (an online journal published by Blackwell: http://www.literature-compass.com/ ).
Current Book Project:
Experimental Theater: Scientific Practice and Occult Mentalities on the Shakespearean Stage (with chapters on Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, The Duchess of Malfi, The Changeling, All’s Well, That Ends Well, and Twelfth Night).
Selected Honors:
Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow, Warwick University, 2010
W. N. Reynolds Leave, UNC-CH, Fall, 2009
Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2008-2009
Tanner Faculty Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-2005
Faculty Fellow, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Fall 2004
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