Research Interests I teach and write about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature, including the poetry and prose of John Milton. My current book project, Biography and Public Life, 1649-1720, explores the unprecedented boom in biographical writing during the years following the trial and execution of Charles I. Part of the seventeenth century explosion of print culture more generally, the vogue for biography encompassed an unruly social cast and generated new, visible, and affectively powerful forms of public expression. I trace its volatile influence on an emergent party politics, on the history of historiography and languages of common memory, and on the imaginative development of the early English novel.
Classes Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Lyric Poetry (165W); British Literature I (251); Shakespeare I & II; Early Modern World-Making; Gossip, Secrecy and the Circulation of Social Knowledge (Honors Seminar)
Graduate (M.A.) Courses: Revenge Tragedy Before and After Hamlet; Writing Revolutions, British Literature, 1603-1689
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