Ph.D., 2005, The University of Texas at Austin, Early Modern Literature and Drama
M.A., 1998, The Ohio State University, Pre-Modern British Literature, Rhetoric, and Literary Theory
Contact Information:
Office: Mason 309
Office Phone: 463-0171
E-mail: engvcp at hofstra.edu
I completed my Ph.D. in English Literature in 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin, where I specialized in early modern literature and culture with a secondary emphasis in women, gender, and literature. Prior to that, I earned a Masters degree in English from The Ohio State University in 1998 and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1996. As an undergraduate at OWU, I played Volleyball and Basketball and was a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.
At Hofstra, I teach Shakespeare (English 115 and 116), Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (English 112), Renaissance and 17th-Century Literature (English 117), Ways of Reading (English 100), and the early British Literature survey (English 41), which covers works from the 5th century to 1798. I also teach graduate-level Shakespeare courses (ENGL 291 A and U).
My research interests include
Shakespeare and early modern drama, poetry, and epic; military history in England; early modern Ireland and Scotland;
British Nationalism(s); women’s writing; and print and manuscript culture. I have published articles on Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Margaret Cavendish, among other subjects; I am currently finishing a book manuscript about military obligation and the militia in 16th- and 17th-century drama.
Selected Publications
FORTHCOMING ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Coats and Conduct: The Materials of Military Obligation in Shakespeare’s Henry Plays,” Modern Philology 109 (February 2012).
“Jockeying Jony: The Politics of Horse-Racing and Regional Identity in The Humourous Magistrate,” Early Theatre 14.2 (December 2011).
FORTHCOMING CHAPTER IN AN EDITED COLLECTION
“The Quality of Mercenaries: Contextualizing Shakespeare’s Elizabethan Scots” in Celtic Shakespeare:The Bard and the Borderers.Eds. Willy Maley and Rory Loughnane.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES ALREADY IN PRINT
“Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the ‘The Gain O’ the Martialist,’” Shakespeare 7.5 (2011): 296–308.
“New Model Armies: Recontextualizing the Camp in Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo,” ELH 78 (2011): 657–685.
“The King’s Privates: Sex and the Soldier’s Place in John Fletcher’s The Humorous Lieutenant (ca. 1618),” Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama XLVII (2008): 25–50.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS ALREADY IN PRINT
“Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo,” in Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth Century Women Dramatists. Eds. Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs (New York: Modern Language Association, 2010): 348–355.
“Old Playwrights, Old Soldiers, New Martial Subjects: Shakespeare, the Cavendishes, and the Drama of Soldiery,” Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections. Eds. James B. Fitzmaurice and Katherine Romack (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): 123–148.
OTHER PUBLISHED WORK
Introduction, Notes, and Critical Bibliography, Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (New York: Simon & Schuster, June 2006).
Curriculum Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, co-authored with Ashley E. Shannon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.