I am a literary and cultural historian of early modern England. Beginning in 2024, I am Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in English at Stanford University. You can view my CV here.
I have broad interests in early modern English literature and culture, as well as in the history of criticism and modern discipline formation. My book project, Categorical Fictions, tracks the aesthetic consequences of modernizing the writing of history and the colonial logics underpinning literary-formal classification. An article drawn from this research appears in ELH. With Megan Cook (Colby College) I am co-editing "Antiquarian Theory and the Foundations of Literary History," a special issue of MLQ.
At Brown, I organized the English Department's Early Modern Working Group and annual lecture (2017-2020). I was a founding board member of the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World (2019), and I led the Center's interdisciplinary graduate colloquium (2017-2019). For 2019-2020, I was an Interdisciplinary Opportunity Fellow jointly at the John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World.
My research has been funded by the Charlotte Beebe Wilbour Fellowship in Oratory English at Brown, the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, and grants from the Renaissance Society of America, the Folger Institute, and the Shakespeare Association of America, which recently shorlisted "Questionable Histories and the Aesthetics of Historiography from Shakespeare to Milton" for the 2024 J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize.
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Photo credit: Sophia van Dyk. Thanks to Harvey Lederman for sharing his style sheet.