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Contact Info:
Tufts University
Department of English
6 The Green
Room 111, East Hall
Medford, MA 02155

Office: 617.627.3026
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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988
B.A., New York University, 1975

Biography

I was born and raised in New York, and I have spent most of my adult life bouncing back and forth between coasts. I originally went to Reed College in Portland Oregon, finished college at NYU, went to graduate school at UC Berkeley, and then came back East to teach at Tufts. I love both coasts; sometime I will get a look at the middle of the country.

Research Interests

• Renaissance dramatic and non-dramatic literature
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Feminist theory

Courses Taught

• General View of English Literature
• Shakespeare
• The Renaissance in England
• Renaissance Drama
• Seventeenth-Century English Literature
• Forms of Desire in Early Modern England

Publication Highlights

Books

• Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
• Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Selected Articles

• "Comedy and Eros: Sexualities on Shakespeare's Stage," in Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare's Comedies. Ed. Heather Hirschfield. Oxford, 2017 (forthcoming).
• "The State of the Art: Sexuality, History, and the Theater," in Edward II: A Critical Reader. Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Ed. Kirk Melnikoff. Bloomsbury, 2016.
• "'Submitting to History': Marlowe's Edward II," in Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England, ed Richard Burt and John M. Archer (Cornell University Press, 1994).
• "'True-Love's Blood': Narrative and Desire in Hero and Leander," English Literary Renaissance 28 (1998).
• "'My body bestow upon my women' : The Space of the Feminine in The Duchess of Malfi," Renaissance Drama n.s. 28 (1999)
• "'I(t) could not choose but follow': Erotic Logic in The Changeling," Representations (2003)
• "The Duchess of Malfi:Tragedy and Gender," in The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy, ed. Garrett Sullivan and Emma Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• "'I cannot tell wat is like me': Simile, Paternity, and Identity in Henry V," Shakespeare Studies 41 (2013).