My research focuses on the body in early modern English literature, and drama in particular.
My current project studies how bodies in early modern English tragedy, when subjected to violence, are not just altered (injured, wounded, etc.) but fundamentally transformed into states that are messy, incoherent, and in-between (ghosts; human-animal and human-plant hybrids; animated corpses; etc.). Against a backdrop of early modern science and anatomy very much invested in a newfound ability to "know" the body, I demonstrate that the body is in fact a site of confusion, paradox, and instability.
My other scholarship and research interests include sexuality; classics, particularly Greek tragedy; classical reception; early modern French literature; medicine; blood and gore; and other critical and theoretical approaches to the body (particularly transgender studies and disability studies).