Aphra Behn and other early modern women writers; performance history of Shakespeare; 16th- and 17th-century (early modern) drama and poetry.

Books:

• Co-editor, Enacting Gender on the English Renaissance Stage, with Viviana Comensoli (University of Illinois Press, 1999).
• Editor, A Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s “The Rover” (Broadview Press, 1994; 2^nd edition, 1999).

Selected recent articles:

• “‘Playing the Men:’ Ellen Tree, Fanny Kemble, and Theatrical Constructions of Gender,” Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare Appropriation" (Spring/Summer 2013).
• “Maurice Evans’s G.I. Hamlet: Analogy, Authority, and Adaptation” in Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, Culture, Identity, ed. Irena Makaryk and Marissa McHugh (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
• “Katherine Philips as Political Poet: ‘The Songs Before the Acts’ in Pompey,” Comparative Drama 44.3 (Fall 2010).
• “Aphra Behn, Textual Communities, and Pastoral Sobriquets,” English Language Notes 40.4 (June 2003).
• “The Politics of Print and the Tragedie of Antonie,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 62 (2003).
• “‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in Aphra Behn’s Miscellanies” in Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints (Ashgate, 2001).
• “Aphra Behn’s Miscellanies: The Politics and Poetics of Editing,” Philological Quarterly 77.3 (1998).