Education:
Ph.D., Harvard University - 2006 (English)
M.A., Harvard University - 2003 (English)
B.A., University of Iowa - 1999 (English (major), French (minor))
Areas of Expertise:
Renaissance drama, children's literature, creative writing (fiction).
Books and Publications
The Jewel of the Kalderash. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Books and Publications: Book) 2011
The Celestial Globe. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Books and Publications: Book) 2010
The Cabinet of Wonders. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008
"Arm the Minds of Infants: Interpreting Childhood in Titus Andronicus." (Criticism) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Breeching the Boy in Marlowe's Edward II." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, 2005-06. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the Humanities, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Winthrop Sargent Prize for an essay on Shakespeare's work. (Awards and Honors) 2005
Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching. (Awards and Honors) 2003
Dexter Traveling Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003
Mellon Interdisciplinary Research Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2003
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Murder's Lesson: Girlhood, Violence, and Education in Early Modern English Pamphlets," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference (GEMCS).
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Murder's Lesson: Girlhood, Violence and Education in Early Modern English Pamphlets." Renaissance Society of America Conference. San Francisco. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"One-Penny Prodigies: Prophetic Children and Credulity in the 'Cheap Press' of Early Modern England." Readers and Reading: Seminar in Book History and Bibliography. The Open University and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Arming the Minds of Infants: Lavinia and the Children in Titus Andronicus," Renaissance Seminar. Harvard University Humanities Center. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"On Precocity: Pedagogy and Knowledge Before Its Time." Shakespeare and Science: New Directions Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Bermuda. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Arming the Minds of Infants to Exclaims: Lavinia and the Children in Titus Andronicus." Renaissance Society of America Conference. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Remembering Childhood and Representing Loss in Early Modern Europe and King John." Physiology, Psychology and Psychoanalysis Seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Conference. New Orleans. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Sacrificed Children and Unsacred Land: Portrayals of Civilization and Colonization in William Strachey's Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia," The Worldly Earth: An Ecological Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Breeching the Boy in Marlowe's Edward II." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference. Newport Beach, Calif. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
Pedagogical Achievements
Whiting Teaching Award. 2010
Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching. 2006
