Works in Progress
Book Manuscript
Cultivating Taste: Selfhood and Aesthetics in Early Modern England.
Articles
“Courtesy and the Ethics of Discernment in Book VI of The Faerie Queene.” Invited to revise and resubmit to The Sixteenth Century Journal (September, 2014). Abstract
Class and Identity in Lyly’s Euphues and Shakespeare’s Romances.
Affect and Self-Regard in The Winter’s Tale.
Paper
Consumption and Continence in Milton’s Masque and Paradise Lost.
Publications
“Constructing a Poetics of the Natural: Proportion, Decorum, and Bodily Appeal in George Puttenham’s Art of English Poesy.”Renaissance Studies 28:1 (February 2014), pp. 33-49.
“Introspection and Self-Evaluation in Astrophil & Stella.” Sidney Journal 30.1 (2012): 51-77.
Review of William Shakespeare, The Sonnets, ed. G. Blakemore Evans and Stephen Orgel. Evaluating Scholarly Research on Shakespeare: A Publication of The Shakespeare Yearbook 18.1(2010): 79-84.
Papers Presented
2014
“Leontes as Critic: Affect and Self-Regard in The Winter’s Tale.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, MO.
“‘Speache So Delightsome’: Pleasure and Learned Interpretation in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender.” Presented at the annual meeting of The Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY.
“Spenser’s Poetics of Discernment.” Presented at the annual Celebration of Early Modern Studies, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto, ON.
2013
“’Nature, Reason, Use’: Cultivation and Class in Euphues and The Winter’s Tale.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, ON. Abstract
2012
“Beyond Sorrow’s Eye: Affect and Taste in Richard II.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, MA. Abstract
2010
“Sensation and Self-Constitution in Shakespeare and Donne.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, IL.
“Constructing a Poetics of the Natural: Proportion and Bodily Appeal in George Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesy.” Presented at the 2010 University of Michigan Early Modern Colloquium Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
2009
“Sensation, Cognition, and Formal Decorum in Puttenham’s Art of English Poesy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, DC.
2008
“Ekphrasis and the Status of the Visual Image in The Rape of Lucrece.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas, TX.
2007
“Reading Communities and Paratext in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, 1590-1621.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York, NY.
2006
“Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo virtutem and the Morality Play Tradition.” Presented at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.