Early Modern

Education

• PhD in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005
• MA in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000
• BA in English (Greek, humanities minors) with honors, Valparaiso University, 1998

Research Interests

• Early Modern English
• manuscripts
• bookshops
• libraries

Select Publications

• Religion Around John Donne (Penn State University Press, 2019).
• Co-edited with Daniel Starza Smith, Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014; paperback Routledge, 2019).
• Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Affiliations

• General editor, British Virginia (digital publisher of colonial documents)
• Faculty sponsor, Superscripts
• Council member, Renaissance English Text Society

Courses

• ENGL 203: British literature I (in the Bridgewater Library)
• ENGL 325: Early modern literature
• ENGL 411: Women's writing in Early Modern English

Awards

• John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication (2019)