I specialize in poetics, Renaissance poetry, and queer theory. My most recent monograph is Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry (2022). I have two chapters in collections forthcoming: one on asexual aesthetics and one of queer parataxis. I’m now writing a book on the question of subject matter in lyric poetry, using examples from the Renaissance to the 21^st century.

I welcome graduate students in Renaissance literature, especially poetry, in queer theory and gender studies more generally, and in poetics (of any period).

Selected Publications

“Sidney and Gender.” In Oxford Handbook of Philip Sidney, ed. Catherine Bates. 675-86. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.

“Different Samenesses.” In Shakespeare Survey 77, ed. Hannah Crawfurth, Elizabeth Scott-
Baumann, and Emma Smith. 24-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

“’With a second hand’: Spenser with Roland Barthes.” Spenser Studies 36 (2023): 537-46.

“Notes on the Couplet in the Sonnet.” Shakespeare 18 (2022): 222-31.

Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry. London: Anthem Press, 2022.

“Katherine Philips’s Monument: The Genre of ‘Wiston Vault.’” In Feminist Formalism
and Early Modern Women’s Writing: Reading, Conversations, Pedagogies, ed. Michelle Dowd and Lara Dodds. 152-66. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2022.

“Locating Queerness.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 28.2 (2021): 53-9.

Shakespeare and Queer Representation. Abingdon UK: Routledge, 2020.