Employment
Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Barnard College (2020-present)
Education
Ph.D. in English, New York University (2020)
M.A. in English, New York University (2018)
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University, in Comparative Literature (French & English), summa cum laude (2011)
Publications
“‘The Carcasse Speakes’: Vital Corpses and Prophetic Remains in Thomas May’s Antigone," Postmedieval 10:1 (2019): 82-94; special issue "Prophetic Futures," ed. Joseph Bowling and Katherine Walker.
“Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia in Aulis,” in Rethinking Shakespearean Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies, ed. Dennis Britton and Melissa Walter (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 206–224.
"'I Do Understand Your Inside': The Animal Beneath the Skin in Webster's Duchess of Malfi," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 30 (2017): 105-125.
“Pricking in Virgil: Early Modern Prophetic Phronesis and the Sortes Virgilianae,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45:3 (2015): 557–571; special issue, “Renaissance Collage: Toward a New History of Reading,” ed. Juliet Fleming, William Sherman, and Adam Smyth.
Translation of Stephanie Lecompte, “Temples of Virtue: Worshipping Virgil in Sixteenth-Century France,” in Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance, eds. Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), pp. 73-91.
(Selected) Conference Papers
"(Un)dead Again: Dying and Undying in Webster's Duchess of Malfi." Paper in seminar "Queering Death," Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL, April 6-9, 2022.
"Violent Noise in Jonson's Epicene." Paper in seminar "Boundaries of Violence," Shakespeare Association of America, online, March 31-April 4, 2021.
"The Violent Ethics of Banquo's Ghost." Paper in seminar "Macbeth, New Directions," Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, 28-31 March, 2018.
"Bloody Ghosts: The Body That is Not One in Macbeth." Paper in seminar "Bloody Talk, Talking Blood," Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, GA, 5-8 April, 2017.
"Riddling Sex in Early Modern England." Paper on panel "Renaissance Jokes and Jokebooks." Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, 30 March-1 April, 2017.
"Prophecy and Prudence: The Virgilian Lots and New Modes of Reading." Paper on panel "Early Modern Prophetic Traditions," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, 5-8 January, 2017.
"London, Cannibal City." Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, Brussels, 18-20 August, 2016.
"Translating and Untranslating 'Strange' Violence On Stage." Theater Without Borders Conference, Paris, France, 27-30 June, 2016.
"Fish/Flesh/Sex: The Erotics of Fish Flesh in Early Modern England." English Student Association of the City University of New York, the Graduate Center, Conference on "The Way of All Flesh," New York, 7-8 April, 2016.
"Greek Ritual in Roman Tragedy: The Case of Titus Andronicus." Paper in seminar "Ritual Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, LA, 23-26 March, 2016.
"Dirty Saints and Pilgrim Porn: The Old English Saint Mary of Egypt and Medieval Proto-pornography." Paper on panel "The Pornographic and the Literary," Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 7-10 January, 2016.
“Worse-than-killing Friendship: Sexual Violence and Perverted Friendship in Shakespeare.” Globe Theatre Conference on “The Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship,” London, 17-19 April, 2015.
“Deallegorizing Antigone: Resisting the Allegorical Impulse in Modern Adaptations of Tragedy.” Paper on panel "Allegory: New Ideas, New Theories," Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada, 8-11 January, 2015.
“'Like an Ape in Rich Silks': Form and Matter of Books in Donne's Courtier's Library.” Paper on panel "Donne and Books," Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 October, 2014.
“Looking the Other Way: Marlowe’s Distorted Vision of Virgil.” Paper on panel "English Theater III," Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY, 27-29 March 2014.
Conference Service
Chair, "Styling Early Modern Disability," Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, 30 March-1 April, 2017.
Chair, "Ecolo-/ Cosmo-/ Meteorolo-gies," Epic Geographies Conference, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, New York, NY, 15-16 April, 2016.
Chair, "Transnational, Multilingual Publics in the Seventeenth Century," Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 7-10 January, 2016.
Session Organizer, "Donne and Books," Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 October, 2014.
Respondent to papers on Panel, “Mediality and Message,” Mediality Conference, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, New York, NY, 3-4 April, 2014.
Awards and Fellowships
2018-2019 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
2018 Barnard College Alumnae Association Fellowship for Graduate Study
2018 Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Dissertation Writing Workshop in London, New York University
2018 Travel Grant, Shakespeare Association of America
2018 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2017 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2017 Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Fellowship in Paris, New York University
2017 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Modern Language Association
2016 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
2016 Dean's Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2015 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2015 Dean's Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2013-2018 McCracken Doctoral Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2013 Dean’s Supplementary Fellowship Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2011 Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching
Barnard College
Renaissance Drama (Summer 2021)
First-year Seminar: Dead and Undead (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
First-year Writing: Unruly Bodies (Spring 2022)
First-year Writing Workshop: Unruly Bodies (Fall 2021)
First-year Writing Workshop: Metamorphosis (Fall 2020)
First-year Writing: Metamorphosis (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
First-year Writing Workshop: Women and Violence (Fall 2019)
The Art of the Essay (Spring 2019)
First-year Writing Workshop: Legacy of the Mediterranean (Fall 2017)
New York University (Teaching Assistant)
British Literature I (Fall 2017; Professor John Archer)
Shakespeare (Fall 2016; Professor Richard Halpern)
Texts and Ideas: Action (Spring 2016; Professor Richard Halpern)
British Literature I ( Fall 2015; Professor John Archer)
Memberships
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Shakespeare Association of America
Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Barnard College (2020-present)
Education
Ph.D. in English, New York University (2020)
M.A. in English, New York University (2018)
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University, in Comparative Literature (French & English), summa cum laude (2011)
Publications
“‘The Carcasse Speakes’: Vital Corpses and Prophetic Remains in Thomas May’s Antigone," Postmedieval 10:1 (2019): 82-94; special issue "Prophetic Futures," ed. Joseph Bowling and Katherine Walker.
“Greek Sacrifice in Shakespeare's Rome: Titus Andronicus and Iphigenia in Aulis,” in Rethinking Shakespearean Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies, ed. Dennis Britton and Melissa Walter (New York and London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 206–224.
"'I Do Understand Your Inside': The Animal Beneath the Skin in Webster's Duchess of Malfi," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 30 (2017): 105-125.
“Pricking in Virgil: Early Modern Prophetic Phronesis and the Sortes Virgilianae,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45:3 (2015): 557–571; special issue, “Renaissance Collage: Toward a New History of Reading,” ed. Juliet Fleming, William Sherman, and Adam Smyth.
Translation of Stephanie Lecompte, “Temples of Virtue: Worshipping Virgil in Sixteenth-Century France,” in Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance, eds. Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), pp. 73-91.
(Selected) Conference Papers
"(Un)dead Again: Dying and Undying in Webster's Duchess of Malfi." Paper in seminar "Queering Death," Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL, April 6-9, 2022.
"Violent Noise in Jonson's Epicene." Paper in seminar "Boundaries of Violence," Shakespeare Association of America, online, March 31-April 4, 2021.
"The Violent Ethics of Banquo's Ghost." Paper in seminar "Macbeth, New Directions," Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, 28-31 March, 2018.
"Bloody Ghosts: The Body That is Not One in Macbeth." Paper in seminar "Bloody Talk, Talking Blood," Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, GA, 5-8 April, 2017.
"Riddling Sex in Early Modern England." Paper on panel "Renaissance Jokes and Jokebooks." Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, 30 March-1 April, 2017.
"Prophecy and Prudence: The Virgilian Lots and New Modes of Reading." Paper on panel "Early Modern Prophetic Traditions," Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, 5-8 January, 2017.
"London, Cannibal City." Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Bruges, Brussels, 18-20 August, 2016.
"Translating and Untranslating 'Strange' Violence On Stage." Theater Without Borders Conference, Paris, France, 27-30 June, 2016.
"Fish/Flesh/Sex: The Erotics of Fish Flesh in Early Modern England." English Student Association of the City University of New York, the Graduate Center, Conference on "The Way of All Flesh," New York, 7-8 April, 2016.
"Greek Ritual in Roman Tragedy: The Case of Titus Andronicus." Paper in seminar "Ritual Shakespeare," Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, LA, 23-26 March, 2016.
"Dirty Saints and Pilgrim Porn: The Old English Saint Mary of Egypt and Medieval Proto-pornography." Paper on panel "The Pornographic and the Literary," Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 7-10 January, 2016.
“Worse-than-killing Friendship: Sexual Violence and Perverted Friendship in Shakespeare.” Globe Theatre Conference on “The Halved Heart: Shakespeare and Friendship,” London, 17-19 April, 2015.
“Deallegorizing Antigone: Resisting the Allegorical Impulse in Modern Adaptations of Tragedy.” Paper on panel "Allegory: New Ideas, New Theories," Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada, 8-11 January, 2015.
“'Like an Ape in Rich Silks': Form and Matter of Books in Donne's Courtier's Library.” Paper on panel "Donne and Books," Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 October, 2014.
“Looking the Other Way: Marlowe’s Distorted Vision of Virgil.” Paper on panel "English Theater III," Renaissance Society of America, New York, NY, 27-29 March 2014.
Conference Service
Chair, "Styling Early Modern Disability," Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, 30 March-1 April, 2017.
Chair, "Ecolo-/ Cosmo-/ Meteorolo-gies," Epic Geographies Conference, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, New York, NY, 15-16 April, 2016.
Chair, "Transnational, Multilingual Publics in the Seventeenth Century," Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 7-10 January, 2016.
Session Organizer, "Donne and Books," Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-19 October, 2014.
Respondent to papers on Panel, “Mediality and Message,” Mediality Conference, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, New York, NY, 3-4 April, 2014.
Awards and Fellowships
2018-2019 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
2018 Barnard College Alumnae Association Fellowship for Graduate Study
2018 Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Dissertation Writing Workshop in London, New York University
2018 Travel Grant, Shakespeare Association of America
2018 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2017 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2017 Provost’s Global Research Initiatives Fellowship in Paris, New York University
2017 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Modern Language Association
2016 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
2016 Dean's Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2015 Travel Grant, Department of English, New York University
2015 Dean's Travel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2013-2018 McCracken Doctoral Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2013 Dean’s Supplementary Fellowship Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
2011 Phi Beta Kappa
Teaching
Barnard College
Renaissance Drama (Summer 2021)
First-year Seminar: Dead and Undead (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
First-year Writing: Unruly Bodies (Spring 2022)
First-year Writing Workshop: Unruly Bodies (Fall 2021)
First-year Writing Workshop: Metamorphosis (Fall 2020)
First-year Writing: Metamorphosis (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
First-year Writing Workshop: Women and Violence (Fall 2019)
The Art of the Essay (Spring 2019)
First-year Writing Workshop: Legacy of the Mediterranean (Fall 2017)
New York University (Teaching Assistant)
British Literature I (Fall 2017; Professor John Archer)
Shakespeare (Fall 2016; Professor Richard Halpern)
Texts and Ideas: Action (Spring 2016; Professor Richard Halpern)
British Literature I ( Fall 2015; Professor John Archer)
Memberships
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Shakespeare Association of America