Education:

Positions Held:

Honors:

Publications:

Books:

• Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, co-edited with Simon Hunt (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
• Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
  ~ also published in Japanese, together with a new Author's Preface, trans. Shogo Ikuta, Osamu Yagawa, and Akira Inoue (Tokyo: Shohakusha Press, 1996)

Articles:

• "Found Londons", from "Roundtable on Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Crime, Control, and Change in the Capital City, 1545-1600" (NACBS Conference), in Historie social-Social History (Fall 2009)
• "Remembering by Dismembering: Databases, Archiving, and the Recollection of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads," Early Modern Literary Studies (EMLS), edited by Shawn Martin, (September 2008)
• "Mocking Aristocratic Place: The Perspective of the Streets," Early Modern Culture (Fall 2008)
• "Introduction" and "Afterword," to Richard Helgerson's Laureate Career, The Spenser Review 38, no. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 5, 17-18
• “Making Vagrancy (In)Visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets,” English Literary Renaissance 33.2 (Spring 2003): 211-27; reprinted in Rogues and Early Modern Literary Culture: A Critical Anthology, eds. Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 193-210
• “Not Home: Alehouses, Ballads, and the Vagrant Husband in Early Modern England,” Special issue on Renaissance Materialities, ed. Maureen Quilligan, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:3 (2002): 493-518
• “ London's Vagrant Economy: Making Space for 'Low' Subjectivity,” article for collection, Material London circa 1600, ed. Lena Cowen Orlin (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 206-25
• “ New Historicism and the Cultural Aesthetics of the High Elizabethan Lyric,” for an MLA volume, titled Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Prescott (2000)
• “Verbal Prisons: The Language of Albee's A Delicate Balance,” Drama Criticism (The Gale Group, 2000); reprint
• “A New New Historicism” (Introduction to Everyday collection, 1999)
• “Homely Accents: Ben Jonson Speaking Low” (version of “Subdiscourse” article for Everyday collection, 1999)
• Review essay of Katharine Eisaman Maus's book, Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance ( Chicago, 1991), for Shakespeare Studies 26 (Fall, 1998): 395
• “Subdiscourse: Jonson Speaking Low,” English Literary Renaissance 25 (1995): 76-96
• “Spenser and Miniatures,” The Spenser Encyclopedia, ed. A. C. Hamilton (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990), pp. 475-76
• “Relative Means: Spenser's Style of Discordia Concors,” Papers on Language and Literature 24 (1988): 3-22
• “'Secret' Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets,” Representations 15 (1986): 57-97; reprinted in Representing the English Renaissance, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 93-133
• “Exchanging Gifts: The Elizabethan Currency of Children and Poetry,” ELH 53 (1986): 241-78
• “Verbal Prisons: The Language of Albee's A Delicate Balance,” Studies in Canada, 7 (1981): 201-11.

Work-In-Progress:

• Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, collection of essays co-edited with Anita Guerrini (contracted with Ashgate Press)
• "Introduction" and "Remembering by Dismembering" essay (reprint) for Ballads and Broadsides in Britain edition
• Early English Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection (edition contracted with Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
• The Moving Matter of Broadside Ballads: The Lady and the Blackamoor (book project contracted to University of Chicago Press)
• Early Modern Ballads: From the Pepys Collection (edition contracted with Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
• Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, collection of essays co-edited with Anita Guerrini (contracted with Ashgate Press)
• "Preface" and "Samuel Pepys and his Ballad Collection" essay for Pepys Collection edition
• Special issue on "Printing Publics" of Early Modern Culture: An Electronicu Seminar <http://emc.eserver.org/>
• "Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustrations," article co-written with Carl Stahmer, Kris McAbee and Megan Palmer Browne, for collection Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, ed. Brent Nelson and Melissa Terras (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University Press)
• "Making Publics in Print," of Early Modern Culture special issue on "Printing Publics"
  
• "The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice," article co-written with Simone Chess, Tassie Gniady, and Kris McAbee, for MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives

Web-Work:

• 2004- Director of the EMC's online English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), beginning with mounting over 1,800 ballads in the Pepys collection in facsimile and transcribed versions, with exhaustive citations and introductory essays
• 1999- Designer and supervisor of EMC Picture Gallery (currently at c. 4,000 images in 3 sizes) as well as an online Slideshow Feature
• 1998- Designer and supervisor of webpage for Early Modern Center

Papers Presented (last 5 years):

• “EBBA: A Digital Home for the Homeless Broadside Ballad,” session on “Editing Beyond the Author Function,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 27-31, 2009
• “Moving Violations of ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor’: Black and More,” Graduate Student Workshop, University of Chicago, April 27, 2009
• “Digitizing Ephemera and Its Discontents,” Conference on “Ephemera: Impermanent Works in the Literary and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century,” Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, March 13-14, 2009
• “Transatlantic Crossings: The Makings of History, Aesthetics, and Blackness, 1570-1789,” Guest Lecture for Sears McGee’s History 140A: Tudor History, UCSB, November 12, 2008
• “Moving Violations of ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor’: Black and More,” Featured Talk for Conference on “Criminality, Liminality, and Imprisonment in the Early Modern Era,” Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, October 24-25, 2008
• “Found Londons?,” Roundtable presentation on Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Crime, Control, and Change in the Capital City, 1545-1600, North American Conference on British Studies Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 4, 2008
• Co-Organizer, Text Encoding Seminar and Workshop (led by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman, Women Writers Project, Brown University), UCSB, September 19-21, 2007
• Invited Discussant, NEH Digital Directors Summit Meeting, for the planning of a national coalition of digital humanities centers, NEH Headquarters, Washington D.C., April 12-13, 2007
• "Pepys, Pictures, and Passwords: Open and Closed Online Resources in Dialogue with Traditional Publication," Session on "New Technologies and Renaissance Studies," Renaissance Society of America Convention, Miami, Florida, March 24, 2007
• Introducer and Organizer, "Richard Helgerson's Laureate Career," Special Session of the International Spenser Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 28, 2006
• "Dismembering by Remembering: Broadside Ballads," EEBO-TCP Conference on "Bringing Texts Alive," University of Michigan, September 16, 2006
• Presentation to Graduate Student Early Modern Colloquium on "Popular Print, Broadside Ballads, and Digital Archiving in Early Modern Studies," University of Michigan, September 14, 2006
• Making Publics (MaPs) Team Think-Tank Sessions, Making Publics Conference, McGill University, Montreal, August 24-26, 2006
• "Mocking Aristocratic Place: The Perspective of the Streets," Session on "Imaging and Imagining the Home," Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco, March 23, 2006
• "The Spacious Voices of Broadsides and Ballads: Pepys's Blackamoor, Black and More," Conference "Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800," University of California, Santa Barbara, February 24, 2006
• "Mastering the Night of Songs," MC for Night of Songs for the Conference, "Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800,? University of California, Santa Barbara, February 24, 2006
• Conference co-organizer, ?Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800," University of California, Santa Barbara, February 24-25, 2006
• Respondent, Fall Colloquium on ?Ballads, Broadsides, and Popular Culture,? University of California, Santa Barbara, November 28, 2005
• "Pepys's Ballads and Their Tunes," Innovation et Arts, Bacara Resort, Goleta, September 1, 2005
• "Charting the Unsettled ?Low?: The Case of Edward Barlow," University of California, Santa Barbara, June 3, 2005
• "Charting the Unsettled ?Low?: The Case of Edward Barlow," University of North Carolina, Charlotte, March 2, 2005
• Introductions for Fall Colloquium for Winter Graduate Student Conference, on 2004-2005 EMC topic of "Memory," UCSB
• Introductions for Fall Colloquium, Graduate Student Conference, and Undergraduate Conference, on 2003-2004 EMC topic of “Home and World,” UCSB
• Co-panelist (with Bill Warner), “From the Early Modern Ballad to Ballads of the American Revolution,” ASECS, March 25-27, 2004
• “The Secret Art of the Elizabethan Court: Miniature Painting,” Conference on Picturing Presence: Portraiture and Painting in Elizabethan England, National Portrait Gallery, July 4, 2003
• Introductions for Fall Colloquium, Graduate Student Conference, and Undergraduate Conference, on 2002-2003 EMC topic of “Early Modern Women,” UCSB
• The Early Modern Center: Picture Gallery and Slideshow, Faculty Showcase: Teaching and Technology, UCSB, April 14, 2003

Offices Held:

2000-04: Elected Member of the Executive Committee, Spenser Society
1989-92: Elected Member of the Executive Committee, Spenser Society

Teaching Experience

University of California-Santa Barbara,
Associate and Assistant Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor

Yale University
Lecturer (full-time)

UC University Service:

UCSB
English Department

Graduate Faculty Advisor
Director, Early Modern Center
Administrative Committee (elected)
Ad Hoc Committee on Budgetary Flexibility (Chair)
Graduate Committee
Job Placement Committee (Chair)
M.A. Examining Committee
M.A. Examining Committee (Chair)
Teaching assistant Advisor
Undergraduate Committee
Lectures Committee
Ph.D. Orals and Dissertation Committee (Jeen Yu, Stephen Deng, Claire Busse, Laurie Ellinghausen, Julia Garrett, Roze Hentschell, Simon Hunt, Jon Connolly, Shannon Miller, Todd West, Jessica Winston, Rebecca Wood)
PhD Dissertation Director (Simone Chess, Tassie Gniady, Eric Nebeker, Jessica Murphy, Todd West)
Ph.D. Orals Committee (Jean Costello, Fred Greene)

UCSB Campus

Renaissance Studies Program (Chair)
Renaissance Studies Program Advisory Committee
Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committees (Chair)
Regents Special Fellowships Committee, Graduate Division

University of Wisconsin-Madison
English Department

Undergraduate Majors Advisor
Undergraduate Scholarships and Fellowships Committee
Undergraduate Student-Faculty Committee
Graduate Student-Faculty Committee
Teaching Committee
Teaching Assistants Review Committee (elected)
Alternate for Faculty Senate
Broad Field A and B Exams

Community Service:

Lecture: "Poor Seaman of the Seventeenth Century," Laguna Blanca Middle School, Santa Barbara, December 17, 2003
Volunteer work fostering kittens for ASAP, 2005-2007