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.

Committed to developing collaborative models for innovative cross-disciplinary 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 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 we’re calling ROAR!, which begins but does not end with a series of provocations about Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl. I have recently published a co-edited collection, Logomotives: Words that Change the World, 1400 -1700, am curator of Shakespeare Unbound, and am enjoying co-teaching the cross-disciplinary graduate seminar Elemental Thinking.

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

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