I am Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. I serve as Vice President on the Board of Directors of The Renaissance Society of America.

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 recently published a co-edited collection, Logomotives: Words that Change the World, 1400 -1700, and curated a campus-wide special exhibit, Shakespeare Unbound. 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,” as well as a collaborative editing experiment among scholars and theater practitioners, co-designed with Sawyer Kemp and Simone Chess, called ROAR!: An Unauthorized Critical Addition that takes Dekker and Middleton’s play The Roaring Girl as its springboard.

Please reach out if you discover intersections with your own work or shared curiosities.

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