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In addition to my new position at Laurier, I am a book reviews editor for Early Theatre and a fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (University of Toronto). I completed my PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California in May 2017.
My primary research studies early modern drama of England, France, and Italy (but especially Shakespeare). I am interested in drama’s negotiations with early modern science, including discourses of bodily determinism, disease, and epistemology. My first book addresses issues of affinity and sociopolitical hegemony in relation to early modern discourses about the workings of blood [Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama published with the Strode Studies for Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Alabama Press (2023)].
More recently, I have begun a second, interdisciplinary research program on the nature and ethics of romantic love. My co-author (Michael Milona, TMU) and I received a SSHRC Insight Grant (2025-28) to fund this project.
My primary research studies early modern drama of England, France, and Italy (but especially Shakespeare). I am interested in drama’s negotiations with early modern science, including discourses of bodily determinism, disease, and epistemology. My first book addresses issues of affinity and sociopolitical hegemony in relation to early modern discourses about the workings of blood [Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama published with the Strode Studies for Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Alabama Press (2023)].
More recently, I have begun a second, interdisciplinary research program on the nature and ethics of romantic love. My co-author (Michael Milona, TMU) and I received a SSHRC Insight Grant (2025-28) to fund this project.
- SSHRC Insight Grant, Project funded “The Nature and Ethics of Romantic Love,” 2025-Present
- Thicker than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama (Strode Studies for Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Alabama Press, 2023).
- “The Story of Romantic Love and Polyamory,” co-authored with philosopher Michael Milona. Journal of Applied Philosophy (2025)
- “‘I do play the touch’: Touchstone and Testing in As You Like It.” Studies in Philology. (2024)
- “‘Infect in Similitude’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (2022/24)
- “Bloody Fray and Bleeding Daughters in Romeo and Juliet.” Early Modern Literary Studies. (2020)
- “Empirical Errors: The Comedy of Errors and “Knowing” Metamorphosing Forms.” Philological Quarterly (2019)
- “Corneille’s Le Cid: A Tragedy of Talking Blood,” Cahiers du dix-septième siècle (2017)
- EN309Y: Shakespeare and Performance
- EN394: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama