Employment:

Education:

Publications:

Books:

• The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England, under contract at the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Articles:

• "The Book and the Fetish: The Materiality of Prospero's Text." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32.3 Fall (2002)
• "Enshrining Idolatry in The Faerie Queene." English Literary Renaissance 32.1 (2002)
• "Trinket, Idol, Fetish: Some Notes on Iconoclasm and the Language of Materiality in Reformation England." Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000)

Electronic Publications (non-refereed):

• "The Merchant of Venice Tutorial." English Renaissance in Context (ERIC), Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania.
• "Editing and Unediting Shakespeare Tutorial." With Brett Wilson. English Renaissance in Context (ERIC), Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania.

Selected Conference Papers & Academic Presentations:

• "A Surplus of Grace: The Impossibility of the Gift and The Winter's Tale." Shakespeare Association of America Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2007.
• "Grace, the Gift, and The Winter's Tale." Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Philadelphia, April 2006.
• "Reading as Idolatry: Reformation Iconoclasm and the Seductions of Doctor Faustus." Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco, March 2006.
• "Doctor Faustus and the Alien Word." Early Modern Seminar, Columbia University, November 2005.
• "Fallen Books and Incarnate Texts in Tyndale and More." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) Conference, Orlando, November 2004.
• "Forgetting the Self: Writing Iconoclasm in The A-Text of Doctor Faustus." Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World Conference, University of North Carolina, March 2004.
• "Sealed with Blood: Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Flesh Made Word." British Studies Colloquium, Yale University, January 2004.
• "Donne's 1633 Poems and the Hermeneutics of Circumcision." History of Material Texts Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, April 2001.
• "The Cut of the Letter: Typology, the Metaphysical Lyric, and the Poetics of Circumcision." Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, March 2001.
• "Converting Trinket to Fetish: Iconoclasm and the Language of Materiality in Reformation England." International Changing and Exchanging Conference, Princeton University, October 2000.
• "Staging the Materiality of Prospero's Text." Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Montreal, April 2000.
• "Redeeming Language: Iconoclasm, the Book, and the Materiality of The Faerie Queene." Medieval/Renaissance Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, November 1999.
• "The Book and the Fetish: Some Notes Toward a Reading of Barbarism and Materiality in The Tempest." Shakespeare Association of America Conference, San Francisco, April 1999.
• "Addressing Letters: The Ideology of the Page and the Interp'lation of the Subject in Joyce's 'Nightlessons.'" The International James Joyce Conference, Toronto, June 1997.

Teaching Experience:

University of California, Santa Barbara
Studies in Renaissance Literature: Technologies of Reading in Early Modern England, English 231, Spring 2008 (Grad)
English Renaissance Drama, English 157, Spring 2008 (Undergrad)
Upper-Division Seminar: Brave New Worlds: Utopianism in Early Modern England, English 197, Fall 2007 (Undergrad)
Shakespeare: Later Plays, English 105B, Fall 2007 (Undergrad)
Studies in Renaissance Literature: The Faerie Queene, English 231, Spring 2007 (Grad)
Upper-Division Seminar: Early Modern Romance, English 197, Spring 2007 (Undergrad)
Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays, English 105A, Winter 2007 (Undergrad) English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, English 101, Winter 2007 (Undergrad)

Yale University
The Tempest and its Transformations, English 352, Spring 2005.
The European Literary Tradition, English 129, Spring 2005.
Shakespeare: Histories & Tragedies, lecture course, English 201, Fall 2004.
Major English Poets, English 125, Fall 2004.
Renaissance Lyric Poetry, graduate student independent study, Spring 2004.
Shakespeare and Memory, English 205, Spring 2004.
The European Literary Tradition, English 129, Spring 2004.
Shakespeare: Histories & Tragedies, lecture course, English 201, Fall 2003.
Major English Poets, English 125, Fall 2003.
The Tempest and its Transformations, English 352, Spring 2003.
The European Literary Tradition, English 129, Spring 2003.
Major English Poets, English 125, Fall 2002.
Plenary lecture on Edmund Spenser to the combined sections of English 125, Fall 2002-04.

University of Pennsylvania
Memory and Desire in the Drama of Shakespeare, English 235, Spring 2002.
Major British Writers 1350-1660, English 20, Spring 2002.
Disinterring Renaissance Drama, English 233, Fall 2001.
Major British Writers 1350-1660, English 20, Fall 2001.
Major British Writers 1350-1660, English 20, Spring 2001.
The Stuff of Renaissance Poetry, English 1, Fall 2000.
As Who Likes It?: Gender and Desire in the Comedies of Shakespeare, English 1, Spring 1998.
Empire and After: Rewriting Colonialism from Shakespeare to Rushdie, English 1, Fall 1997.
Madness, Deviance, and Cultural Difference: Shakespeare on Film, English 8, Spring 1997.
Political Theater, English 8, Fall 1996.

Selected Professional Service:

University of California, Santa Barbara
Medieval Search Committee, 2007-2008.
Undergraduate Committee, 2006-7.

Yale University
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Renaissance Studies Program, 2004-5.
Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Co-Coordinator, 2004-5.
Undergraduate Studies Committee, English Department, 2003-4; 2004-5.
Lectures and Events Committee, English Department, 2004-5.
Awards Committee, English Department, 2002-3; 2003-4.

Selected Honors, Fellowships, & Scholarships:
Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 2005-6.
Diane Hunter Prize for the best dissertation submitted in English, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Dean's Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Nominee, Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1999-2000.
University Tuition Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1999.
Bender Fellowship, Cambridge University, 1994-1995.