I am Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. I serve on the Board of Directors for the Renaissance Society of America as the Associate Organizations and International Cooperation Chair and on the Executive Committee of the Folger Institute Consortium. This spring (2026), I am Visiting Associate Professor of Humanities at Yale University.

Committed to developing collaborative models for innovative crossdisciplinary research and public humanities exchange, I have founded and partnered on a number of long-term scholarly and artistic projects with the goal of discovering the synergies that enliven our work and our lives. Most recently, these projects include: the Renaissance of the Earth, as well as the Anthropocene Lab and Archipelago Team Grants.

I am author of Doppelgänger Dilemmas: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Early Modern English Literature and Culture and co-author of “So Long Lives This”: A Celebration of Shakespeare's Life and Works, 1616-2016, winner of the 2017 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Award. I am currently at work on a number of projects including a monograph entitled, “A World of Words: Language, Earth and Embodiment in Early Modernity,” and a collaborative project with Sawyer Kemp and Simone Chess called ROAR!, which opens onto a series of provocations about Dekker and Middleton’s 1611 play The Roaring Girl. I have recently published a co-edited collection, Logomotives: Words that Change the World, 1400 -1700, and served as curator of a campus-wide special exhibit, Shakespeare Unbound.

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