Research
My research concentrates on Shakespeare in script, performance, and adaptation. My research is in three domains. First, presentist analyses of war and trauma in Shakespeare and early modern drama. Second, gender and ethnicity in the early modern period and early modern literature. Third, stage and screen adaptations and homages.
My work is conducted highlights the relevance of Shakespeare and other early modern playwrights to a multicultural modern audience. I especially encourage a transtemporal identification between contemporary readers, particularly trauma survivors and military spouses, and their early modern forbears through art.
Publications
Book
Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare (Routledge, 2021)
Book Chapter
“Punishing Wrongdoers and Other Things I Didn’t Know I Needed From A Romantic Comedy: Messina as a Post-Conflict Society” in William Rampone and Nicholas Utzig (eds.), Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness. Lexington Books.
Articles
"‘You don’t have the right to hit anyone’: Domestic violence in Othello and Omkara." Indian Theatre Journal. doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/itj_00019_1
"‘This Island’s Mine’: Ownership of the Island in The Tempest." Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12189.
Reviews
"Review of Goblin:Macbeth dir. by Rebecca Northan." Shakespeare Bulletin 41, no. 4 (2023): 618-622. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2023.a920578
"Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards, eds., Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)." Early Modern Literary Studies. 22(2). https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/EMLS/article/view/314#
Projects in Progress
Ongoing projects include examining Shakespeare and trauma theory, teen Shakespeare adaptations, and the early modern perception of the Coptic Church.