Areas of Interest

• English Renaissance Literature
• Sonnets and Sonnet Culture
• Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
• Violence and Rhetoric of the Body
• Epic Poetry and the Classical Tradition

Current Projects and Publications

• "‘Redoubled Horror’: The Copious Text of Anne Vaughan Locke’s A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner"
  Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, March 2006

• Respondent to Peter Stallybrass, "Technologies of Memory and Erasure in Hamlet"
Early Modern Center Fall Colloquium , UCSB, November 2004


• "Viewing ‘Venereal Monuments’: Courtesans, Rape, and Erotics of Commodification in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller."
CLTC Conference: "The Sacred and the Profane," UCSB, May 2004.


• "‘Self-Substantial Fuel’: Reflections of Narcissus and Echo in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets."
CLTC Roundtable, UCSB, November 2003.


• "Purgatory Performed: Hamlet and Shakespeare's Divine Comedy."
  GEMCS Conference, Newport Beach, CA, October 2003.

Teaching Experience

Summer Associate, Engl 10: Early Modern, Modernism, Postmodern, Summer 2005
Teaching Assistant, Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing, Spring 2005
Teaching Assistant, Engl 105A: Early Shakespeare, Winter 2005
Teaching Assistant, Engl 10: Early Modern Memory, Fall 2004
Summer Associate, Engl 105B: Later Shakespeare, Summer 2004
Teaching Assistant, Writing 2: Introduction to Academic Writing, Fall 2003- Spring 2004
Teaching Assistant, Engl 15: Introduction to Shakespeare; Spring 2003
Teaching Assistant, Engl 102: British Literature, 1650-1800; Winter 2003
Teaching Assistant, Engl 101: British Literature, Chaucer-1650; Fall 2002