Washington and Lee University
Payne Hall 32FPh.D., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005
M.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
B.A., English (Classics minor), summa cum laude, Millsaps College, 1998
Shakespeare, medieval and early modern drama, history of drama, religious identities and controversies, representations of religious difference.
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 231—Introduction to Drama
English 252—Shakespeare
English 318—Medieval and Renaissance Drama
English 319—Shakespeare and Company
English 320—Shakespearean Genres
English 354—Modern and Contemporary British and American Drama
Seminar and Capstone Topics
English 299—Love and Religion in Early Modern Drama
English 413—Drama and Performance Criticism; Ritual, Religion, and Drama
"Angels in England: Idolatry and Transformation at the Red Bull Playhouse," Thunder at a Playhouse: Proceedings from the Fourth Blackfriars Conference, ed. Peter Kanelos and Matt Kozusko (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press, forthcoming 2009).
"Motion Rhetoric in Serial Conversion Narratives: Religion and Change in Early Modern England," Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism, ed. Lowell Gallagher (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2010).
"The Idolatrous Nose: Incense on the Early Modern Stage," Religion and Drama: Studies in the Materiality of Performance, ed. Jane Degenhardt and Elizabeth Williamson (Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, forthcoming 2010).
Review of Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing and Conversion: Old Worlds and New, ed. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 205-08.
Review of The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, by Daniel Goffman, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2003): 232-34.
Review of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, by Eamon Duffy, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33 (2002): 188-91.
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England (book manuscript)
