Employment
Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Pennsylvania
M.A. in English & American Literature, University of Notre Dame
B.S., with Honors, in Chemistry and German, University of Notre Dame
Publications & Research Interests
Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft: Remnants of the Mysteries on the London Stage is a five-chapter monograph published by Cornell University Press in 2014.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
“‘And golden vizards on their faces’: Theatrical Awakening in All Is True.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.1-2 (Spring & Summer 2022), 121-45.
“Did Early Modern Drama Actually Happen?” in The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity, eds. Michelle Dowd and Tom Rutter (Forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2022).
“A Greenwich Night’s Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in post-Armistice Britain,” in Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016, eds. Edmund G. C. King and Monika Smialkowska (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 65-85.
“Stealing Shives: Titus Andronicus as Chaucerian anti-Romance.” Comparative Drama 55.2 (2021), 185-210.
“Moldy Pericles,” Exemplaria: Medieval, Early Modern, Theory 29.3 (Fall 2017), 210-233.
“Balaam to Bottom: Artifact and Theatrical Translation in the Sixteenth Century,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42.2 (Spring 2012), 421-59.
“‘Erazed in the booke’?: Periodization & the Material Text of the Chester Banns,” in The Chester Cycle in Context, 1555-1575: Religion, Drama, and the Impact of Change, eds. David Klausner and Helen Ostovich (Ashgate, 2012), 133-45.
“‘Here’s a knocking indeed!’: Macbeth & the Harrowing of Hell,” Shakespearean Hearing. Special Issue of Upstart Crow 29 (2010): 26-43.
Edited Works
Two plays from the 16th-Century Chester Mystery Cycle (“Cure of the Blind Man” and “Christ and the Leper”), in The Medieval Disabilities Sourcebook, ed. Cameron Hunt McNabb (Punctum Books, 2020).
Book Reviews
Review of Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin, eds., Games and Theatre in Shakespeare’s England (University of Amsterdam Press, 2021), Renaissance Quarterly 76.4 (Winter 2023), 93.
Review of Lindsay Ann Reid, Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval (D. S. Brewer, 2018), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019), 408-11.
Review of Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole, eds. The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Modern Philology 117.2 (November 2019), E91-E92.
Review of Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano, The Civic Cycles: Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England (Notre Dame Press, 2016), Theatre Survey 58.3 (September 2017), 404-405.
Review of Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, and Peter Holland, eds. Medieval Shakespeare: Pasts and Presents (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Renaissance Quarterly 67.2 (Summer 2014), 712-13.
Review of Margaret Rogerson, ed. The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City (York Medieval Press, 2011), Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 87.4 (Fall 2012), 87-89.
Works in Progress
Shakespeare at Sea: A Cultural History of Theatricality in the Royal Navy, a book project which hopes to enrich our understanding of the theatrical and literary cultures of the Royal Navy from the Age of Sail to the present.