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Areas of Interest

• Medieval Literature
• Renaissance Literature
• Restoration Literature

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: "Domesticating Vengeance: The Female Revenger in Early Modern English     Drama"
Committee: James Kearney, Patricia Fumerton, Mark Rose

M.A. Thesis: "'Second Love Will Further My Revenge': Female Power in The Spanish Tragedy
Committee: Randall Nakayama, Julie Paulson

Publications:

• "'Such a Sinner of his Memory': Prospero, Bruno, and the Failures of Neo-Platonic Memory Magic." Accepted for Stage Superstitions: Playwrights, the Supernatural, and the Early Modern Stage. Ed. Verena Theile. (Currently seeking publisher).
• "The Power of the Fixed Text?: Conflicted Textual Authority in the York Register (British Library MS Additional 35290)" (Working Title). Accepted for Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts. Ed. Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne (forthcoming June 2010 Boydell & Brewer).
• Literary Character Entries on King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, The Spanish Tragedy, The Tempest, and The Way of the World for Facts on File Dictionary of Literary Characters (Facts on File; New York, forthcoming Summer 2009).
• Rev. of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality, Rebecca Ann Bach. Sixteenth Century Journal. (Forthcoming Spring 2009).
• Rev. of Print and Power in France and England, Ed. David Adams and Adrian Armstrong. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 62:2, Fall 2008.
• "'I fear she cannot love at all': Unnatural Female Sexuality in the Revenge Tragedy." Genre. Vol. 28, 2008.
• Rev. of Voice in Motion, by Gina Bloom. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 62:1, Spring 2008.
• Rev. of Tempest in the Caribbean, by Jonathan Goldberg. Early Modern Center Bookshelf. 19 March 2004. University of California Santa Barbara.
• "'Old, foul, bad, yellow things': The use of color in The Yellow Wallpaper." Interpretations Vol. XIV. SFSU Spring 2002.
• "'If These Be Good People': Law, Ethics, and Morality in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure." Interpretations Vol. XII. SFSU Spring 2000.

Conference Papers:

International:
• “'What's a Play Without a Woman in it?': Engendered Agency and Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Los Angeles, CA, 3/19 - 3/21/09
• “The Power of the Fixed Text?: Ideological and Social Conflicts About the Nature of Textuality in the York Register (British Library MS additional 35290)”, 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5/8 - 5/11/08
• "Intemperate Temperance and Unjust Justice: Failed Virtue as a Deliberate Construction in Book V of Spenser's Faerie Queene." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC), San Antonio, TX 10/24-10/27/02.


Regional:
• “Hildegicelum: Battle Icicles and Christian Affirmation in Beowulf 1605 B – 1622 B.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Pomona, CA, 11/7/08 – 11/8/08.
• “Anticommunity Ballads and the Demonizing of the Popular.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Reno, NV, 10/09/08-10/11/08.
• "Englishing Medea: Gender, Marriage, and Elizabethan Anxieties in John Studley's Medea." Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC), San Marino, CA, 2/2/08.
• "'Such a Sinner of His Memory': Prospero, Bruno, and the failure of Neo-Platonic Memory," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Bellingham, WA, 11/2/07-11/3/07.
• "Un-'Happy Endings' and Social Reform: Proserpine, Midas, and the Question of Change." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), Calgary, 10/4/07-10/6/07.
• "Beyond the Epic?: The Failure of Love Poetry in The Shepheardes Calendar and the Construction of a New Poetic Paradigm." Northern California Renaissance Conference (NCRC), Oakland, 4/29/06.


Local:
• "Textuality, Performance Record, and Power: Competing Functions and the Struggle for Authority in the York Register." UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, Santa Barbara, 4/16/05.
• "If These Be Good People: Law, Ethics, and Morality in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure." CSU Shakespeare Symposium, CSU Fullerton, 11/30-12/1/01.

Fellowships and Awards:

• Spring 2009, Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara
• Spring 2008, CLTC Travel Grant, Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture, UC Santa Barbara.
• 2007-8, 2006-7, 2005-6, 2004-5, Graduate Student Fee Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara.
• Spring 2006, Brython Davis Central Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara

Professional Service:

2005-present	Graduate Student Associate, Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700. Research Consortium, McGill University.
Summer 2004, 2006, 2007	Ballad Team Member (Cataloguer, Transcriber, Checker), English Broadside Ballad Archive, NEH Reference Materials Project. PI: Patricia Fumerton. Early Modern Center, UC Santa Barbara.
February 24 - 25 2006	Conference Organizer and Panel Moderator, "Straws in the Wind": Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800. Early Modern Center Winter Conference, UC Santa Barbara.
2003-2005	Work Group Member, Diversity Work Group. English Department, UC Santa Barbara.
2003-2004	GSA Representative, English, Graduate Student Association. UC Santa Barbara.
1999-2001	Associate Editor 1999-2000, Editor-in-chief 2000-2001, Interpretations. San Francisco State University.
2000-2001	Co-chair, Graduate Literature Association. San Francisco State University.
2000-2001	Committee member, Graduate Literature Curriculum Committee. San Francisco State University.

Teaching Experience

Associateships:

• English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare, Summer 2007
• English 10: Introduction to Literary Study, Summer 2006
• English 105A: Shakespeare: Early Plays - Threads of Memory, Summer 2005

Assistantships:

• English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern Literature of Science and Technology, Winter 2008
• Writing 2: Academic Writing, Fall 2008, Winter 2007, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2004
• English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern - Female Revengers, Spring 2007
• English 10EM: Introduction to Literary Study: Early Modern - Visions of the Popular in early Modern Popular Culture, Fall 2005

Teaching Assistantships:

• English 122EN:Cultural Representations : Introduction to Literature and the Environment, Spring 2008
• English 15: Introduction to Shakespeare, Fall 2006
• English 105A: Shakespeare: Early Plays, Spring 2004
• English 102: English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789, Winter 2004
• English 101: English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650, Fall 2003

Lectures:

• "As hogs do rub themselves on gates and grunt": Representations of sexuality in "The Imperfect Enjoyment" and "The Disappointment." 2/11/04. UCSB, ENGL 102.

Professional Associations:
Member RMMLA, PAMLA, MLA, RCSC, Shakespeare Association of America

Languages:
Command of Spanish. Reading Knowledge of Italian, French, Latin, Anglo-Saxon.

The Early Modern Center

University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of English, South Hall 2510, (805) 893-4365

Director: Ken Hiltner ~ Graduate Fellow: Billy Hall