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Associate Professor of EnglishResearch and teaching interests
English Renaissance literature and cultural studies; early modern science; women in the early modern period; feminist theory
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1991
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1986
B.A., Rice University, 1984
Publications
Book
Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Essays
"Introduction: Pseudoscientific Designs." English Language Notes 47.2 (Fall/Winter 2009), forthcoming
“Harry Berger’s Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss.” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller. Fordham Univ. Press, 2009, 92-103
“The Alchemist and Science.” Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion. Ed. Garrett A. Sullivan, Patrick Cheney, and Andrew Hadfield. Oxford Univ Press, 2006, 200-12
"Sure Can Sing and Dance: Minstrelsy, the Star System, and the Post-postcoloniality of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night." Shakespeare, the Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, Television, Video, and DVD. Ed. Lynda Boose and Richard Burt. Routledge, 2003, 72-88
"Spenser's Ravishment: Rape and Rapture in The Faerie Queene." Representations 70 (Spring 2000): 1-26
"New Historicism in Literary Theory." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelly. Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, 2: 404-7
"Age Cannot Wither Him: Warren Beatty's Bugsy as Hollywood Cleopatra." Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, Television, and Video. Ed. Lynda Boose and Richard Burt. Routledge, 1997, 198-214
"'Changing all that forme of common weale': Genre and the Repeal of Queenship in The Faerie Queene, Book V." English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996): 259-90
With M. Lindsay Kaplan, "'Good queen, my lord, good queen': Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in The Winter's Tale." Renaissance Drama 24 (1994): 89-118
"Nostalgia and the Not Yet Late Queen: Refusing Female Rule in Henry V," ELH 61 (1994): 523-50. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism Yearbook 1994: A Selection of the Year's Most Noteworthy Studies of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry. Gale Research, 1996
Journal issues edited
"Literature and Pseudoscience." Special issue of English Language Notes 47.2 (Fall/Winter 2009), forthcoming
Selected honors and awards
Vice President (2006-2007) and President (2008-2009) of the International Spenser Society
Folger Shakespeare Library Mellon Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, 2007-2008
CU Boulder Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2008
Provost's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work, CU Boulder, 2006
Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award, CU Boulder, 2003
Center for Humanities and the Arts Fellow, CU Boulder, 2001-02
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1995-96
Current projects
Unnatural Magic: Alchemy and Disknowledge in Early Modern England (book)
"Alchemy and the Avoidance of Female Reproduction: Love's Labour's Lost" (article)
"Kabbalah's End: The Art of Humanist Repression in Doctor Faustus and The Tempest" (article)