Areas of Interest

• Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Early Modern Women Writers
• Genders and Sexualities
• Ballads and Ballad Culture
• Proto-Novels and Romances

Current Projects and Publications

Dissertation: “Where’s your man’s heart now?”: Male to Female Crossdressing in Early Modern Literature”

• “‘and I my vowe did keepe’: Oath Making, Subjectivity and Husband Murder in “Murderous Wife” Ballads,” article forthcoming in Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, ed. Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini (Ashgate Press).
• “The Pepys Ballad Archive: from Theory to Practice,” co-written with Patrcia Fumerton, Tassie Gniady, and Kris McAbee, article for MLA edition, Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives.
• “Ballad Illustration” forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
• “Drinking and Good Fellowship” forthcoming in Early Modern Broadside Ballads: From the Pepys Collection, ed. Patricia Fumerton (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies).
• “Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries,” published Book Chapter, in That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, ed. Mattilda, aka Matt, Bernstein Sycamore, Soft Skull Press, 2004.

• “Mankind girls: Violent Encounters in Drag,” for the “Dress and Identity” Panel, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Spring 2008 (expected).
• “Men in Drag, or Boys in Dresses? Boyhood, Masculinity, and the Male to Female Crossdresser,” Renaissance Society of America, Miami, Spring 2007.
• “Where's Your Jonson?: Male to Female Crossdressing in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Devil is an Ass,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chicago, Winter 2007.
• “Conduct and Crossdressing: Performing Gender and the Threat of Violence,” Conference Workshop with Jessica C. Murphy, Attending to Early Modern Women-- and Men, U. of Maryland, College Park, Winter, 2007.
• “‘His son in the stead of his daughter’: Crossdressing in a Gendered Economy,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, Winter 2006.
• “‘and I my vowe did keepe’: Oath Making, Subjectivity and Husband Murder in “Murderous-Wife” Ballads, UCSB Early Modern Center Conference: Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides 1500-1800, Santa Barbara, Winter, 2006.
• “‘Bare sexes’: Male to Female Crossdressing, Masculinity and Femininity Doublecrossed,” Group For Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio, Winter, 2006.
• “‘Lovers made him remember that he was one’: Memories Carved in Ash in Mary Wroth’s Urania,” USCB Early Modern Center Conference: Memory, 1500-1800, Santa Barbara, Spring 2005.

Awards and Honors

• Interdisciplinary Humanities Center PreDoctoral Research Fellowship, Spring 2008.
• Making Publics travel and research funding, 2007.
• Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, 2006-2007.
• UCSB Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity Community Service Award, 2005.
• Nomination: UCSB Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellowship, 2005.
• Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Collaborative Graduate Award ($2,500 toward co-creating a National conference on Queer Genders), 2004-2005.
• English Department Outstanding New TA Award, 2004.
• Gregory Paul D’Amico Inspiration Award (“recognizes a student whose energy, charisma and style have energized, united and inspired our queer community”), 2004.
• Nomination: UCSB Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004.
• UC Santa Barbara English Department Fellowship 2002.
• Smith College Alumnae Association Fellowship, 2002-2003.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Associate, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

• English 105A: Shakespeare: Early Poems and Plays (Summer, 2007)
• English 101: Medieval to 1650 (Summer, 2006)
• English 10: Early Modern Gender and Violence (Spring, 2006)
• English 10: Early Modern Gender, Love, and Popular Culture (Winter, 2006)
• English 10: Introduction to Literary Studies (Summer 2005)

Teaching Assistant, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Writing 2: Academic Writing, ACE class: first generation college students (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)
• Writing 2: Academic Writing, general class (Winter 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2007)

Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Eng101: British Literature, Medieval to 1650 (Fall, 2003)
• Eng152A: Chaucer (Winter, 2004)
• Eng105A: Shakespeare, Early Poems and Plays (Spring, 2004)