
Work in Progress
"The Sonnet, Subjectivity, and Gender" for The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet. Eds. A.D. Cousins and Peter Howarth. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
Revised version of "Love Poetry" for A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Wiley-Blackwell (under contract).
Work submitted to editors
"Do we need another Hero?: Minding the Gaps in the Performance of Much Ado About Nothing." Solicited for inclusion in a volume of essays on Shakespeare and the Senses. Eds. Lowell Gallagher and Shankar Raman. Volume proposal under consideration at Palgrave.
Work in Press
"Meditations in a time of (displaced) war: Henry V and the ethics of performing history." For Shakespeare and War. Eds. Paul Franssen and Rosalind King. Palgrave Macmillan.
"Scott and Shakespeare." Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Ed Patricia Parker. Scheduled publication: 2007.
"Two Popular Kinsmen? Shakespeare, Stoppard, and the Aesthetics of Film Collaboration." Solicited for inclusion in a volume of proceedings from Shakespeare on Film: The Centenary Conference. Ed. Jose Ramon Diaz Fernandez. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam. Scheduled publication: 2007.
Published Articles
"From Popular Culture to Literature." For The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Ed. Robert Shaughnessy. Cambridge University Press, 2007: 6-25
"The Artistic Process: Learning From Campbell Scott's Hamlet." A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006: 77-95.
"William Shakespeare: The Tragedies." For The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. David Kastan, Editor-in Chief. Oxford University Press. 2006.
"Performing History: Henry IV, money, and the fashion of the times." A Companion on Shakespeare and Performance. Eds. Barbara Hodgdon and W. B. Worthen. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005: 376-96.
"Theatre and controversy, 1572-1603." History of British Theatre, Vol. 1: Origins to 1660. Eds. Jane Milling and Peter Thomson. Cambridge University Press. 2004: 242-263.
"Othello Redux?: Scott's Kenilworth and the Trickiness of 'Race' on the Nineteenth-century Stage." Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 2: Literature and Culture. Eds. Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003: 14-29.
"A Shrew for the Times, Revisited." Shakespeare: The Movie II: Popularizing the plays of film, TV, video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. Routledge, 2003: 120-139.
"The Tempest in Performance." A Companion to Shakespeare, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays. Eds. Richard Dutton and Jean Howard. Basil Blackwell. 2003: 216-239.
"Sir Philip Sidney." British Writers: Retrospective Supplement II. Ed. Jay Parini. Scribner's Sons. 2002: 327-342.
"Shakespeare: The Theme Park." Shakespeare After Mass Media. Ed. Richard Burt. New York: Palgrave, 2002: 107-126.
"Henry King." British Writers, Supplement VI. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner's Sons, 2001: 149-163.
"Love Poetry." A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Basil Blackwell. 2000: 378-391.
"The Disappearing Queen: Looking for Isabel in Henry V." Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance. Ed. Edward Esche. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000: 339-355.
"King and No King: 'The Exequy' as an Antebellum Poem." The Wit to Know: Essays on English Renaissance Literature for Edward Tayler. Eds. Eugene D. Hill and William Kerrigan. Fairfield, CT: George Herbert Journal Special Studies and Monographs, 2000: 57-75. [Simultaneously published as a special issue of The George Herbert Journal 22, 1& 2 (1998/99): 57-75.]
"Teaching Sidney's Astrophil and Stella." Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry. Eds. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott. MLA Publications, 2000: 196-201.
"Poetry, English: Tudor Poetry Before Spenser." The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, volume 5. Editor in Chief, Paul F. Grendler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1999: 82-85. [Volume awarded the 2000 Dartmouth Medal by the American Library Association and reference volume prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.]
"Rewriting Family Ties: Woolf's Renaissance Romance." Virginia Woolf: Reading the Renaissance. Ed. Sally Greene. Columbus: Ohio State Press, 1999: 136-160.
"Henry V: An Introduction through Performance." Commissioned for The Complete Arden Shakespeare on CD-ROM. Eds. Peter Holland, Barbara Hodgdon, and Tony Dawson. Thomas Nelson/Arden Shakespeare. Electronic version released 1999; larger project subsequently cancelled. Currently available online at http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/henryv.html.
"Reading Vernacular Literature" (co-authored with James Siemon). A Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. David Scott Kastan. Basil Blackwell, 1999: 206-222.
"Enter Queen Isabel: The Difference It Makes." "Commentaries" section of William Shakespeare's Henry V. Ed. John Russell Brown. New York: Signet Classic, 1998: 206-209.
"A Shrew for the Times." Shakespeare: The Movie. Popularizing the plays on film, TV, and video. Eds. Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. New York: Routledge, 1997: 148-168. [Reprinted in "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Taming of the Shrew." Ed. Marion Wynne-Davies. Palgrave New Casebook series, 2001.]
"Female Power and the Devaluation of Renaissance Love Lyrics." Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry. "Reading Women's Writing" series. Eds. Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997: 38-59.
"The Theater and Domestic Culture." A New History of Early English Drama. Eds. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997: 173-194. [Volume received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Prize.]
"A Woman Killed with Kindness and Domesticity, False or True: A Response to Lisa Hopkins." Connotations 5.1 (1995/96): 49-54.
"'Be bold, be bold . . . be not too bold': The Pleasures and Perils of Teaching Book 3." Approaches to Teaching Spenser's "The Faerie Queene." Eds. David Lee Miller and Alexander Dunlop. New York: MLA Publications, 1994: 126-133.
"Elizabeth's Watchful Eye and George Peele's Gaze: Examining Female Power Beyond the Individual." In Women and Sovereignty. Ed. Louise Olga Fradenburg. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992: 150-169.
"Joyce's Modernist Woman: Whose Last Word?" Modern Fiction Studies 35.3 [special issue: Feminist Readings of Joyce] (1989): 517-528.
"Many Mansions: Reconstructing A Woman Killed with Kindness." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 26.2 (1986): 277-294.
Reviews
Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion by Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd Wilson, eds. Shakespeare Studies 34: 228-235.
ART's "Dido, Queen of Carthage," dir. Neil Bartlett, Shakespeare Bulletin (winter 2006).
Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting, by Richard Helgerson. Shakespeare Quarterly 53.3 (Fall 2002): 393-395.
The Limits of Eroticism in Post-Petrarchan Narrative: Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell by Dorothy Stephens. JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100:3 (July 2001): 447-449.
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether, eds. Renaissance Quarterly 50.3 (Autumn 1997): 13-15.
The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing by Lynn Enterline. Shakespeare Bulletin 14.4 (1996): 43.
Shakespeare & Company's "Much Ado About Nothing," July 1995. Shakespeare Bulletin 13.4 (1995): 16.
The Company of Women's "Henry V" at Shakespeare & Company, September 1994, Shakespeare Bulletin 12.4 (1994): 24-25.
Theories of the Theatre by Marvin Carlson. Critical Texts 3.1 (Fall 1985): 70-71.

At M.I.T.
Graduate Seminar
CMS.796 Major Media Texts
Advanced Undergraduate Seminars
21L.701 Literary Interpretation: Virginia Woolf's Shakespeare
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Gender and Performance
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War
21L.703 Studies in Drama: Tom Stoppard/Caryl Churchill
21L.704 Studies in Poetry: Songs, Sonnets, and the Story of English
Intermediate Level
21L.420 Literary Studies: The Legacy of England
21L.430 Popular Narrative: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
21L.435 Literature and Film: Cultural Collaborations
21L.486 Modern Drama
Introductory Level
21L.005 Introduction to Drama
21L.009 Shakespeare
21L.016 Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance
Supervisor/reader of undergraduate and graduate theses in Literature and Comparative Media Studies
At Middlebury College
Advanced Seminars: Modes of Reading: Drama, Gender, Class; Virginia Woolf and Literary History; Literary Bodies; Coming to Terms
Intermediate level: Medieval and Renaissance Drama; Shakespeare; Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances; Literature of the Sixteenth Century; Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton
Introductory level: Interpretation of Literature; Comic Drama; Narrative Fiction; Stories About Women; Women in Literature: Myths, Images, and Interpretations; Reading Women's Writing
English Department Senior Program (including oral and written comprehensive exams)
Supervisor of Senior Honors Theses and Essays and creative projects in playwriting, non-fiction, and fiction (Departments of English; American Literature and Civilization; Literary Studies; Creative Writing Program). Advisor for Junior and Senior-level Theater projects.
At Columbia University
Literary & Philosophical Humanities (year course), College Composition.