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Biography
Ph.D. in English, Queens' College, University of Cambridge (2015)
M.Phil. in English, Queens' College, University of Cambridge (2011)
B.A. in English, Barnard College, Columbia University (2010)
Before joining the University of Nottingham in 2017, I served as a Fellow in English at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, from 2015 to 2017. I also taught English Literature and Language at the Université Paris-Diderot in Paris, France, from 2014 to 2015.
Teaching Summary
I teach Renaissance literature to undergraduates and postgraduates. I convene the third-year undergraduate course Reformation and Revolution, and contribute teaching to Drama, Theatre, and… read more
Research Summary
My first book, John Donne's Language of Disease: Eloquent Blood (Routledge, 2023), explores how early modern England's medical culture shaped the poetry and prose of John Donne (1572-1631). My work… read more
Recent Publications
I teach Renaissance literature to undergraduates and postgraduates. I convene the third-year undergraduate course Reformation and Revolution, and contribute teaching to Drama, Theatre, and Performance; Shakespeare and his Contemporaries on the Page and Stage; Shakespeare's Histories; Shakespeare, Space, and Place; Early Performance Cultures; Speculative Fictions; and Twentieth Century Poetry and Politics. I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Current Research
My first book, John Donne's Language of Disease: Eloquent Blood (Routledge, 2023), explores how early modern England's medical culture shaped the poetry and prose of John Donne (1572-1631). My work on Donne has appeared in The Review of English Studies and Studies in English Literature. Yale University's Beinecke Library awarded me the Edith and Richard French Fellowship to underwrite research for a second book, on early modern women's writing, in Spring 2020.
Future Research
My new book project, Contemplating Melancholy: Women's Writing of the English Civil War, explores how and why women writing in seventeenth-century England featured melancholy in their work. My work will show how these writers embraced their war-inflicted isolation, displacement, and loss as a source of inspiration and developed an artistic identity distinct from that of their male peers.