Biography

I am an Associate Professor of English at York University (Toronto, Canada), where I specialize in Renaissance literature and Shakespeare. I received my B.A. (English and History) and my M.A. (English) from the University of Toronto, and my Ph.D. in English literature from Stanford University. My published work explores the transnational contexts for English drama and political writing in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and includes essays on Jacobean representations of Elizabeth I; the literary geography of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; Hamlet and the French wars of religion; Love’s Labour’s Lost and continental history; and the French sources for Christopher Marlowe’s last play, The Massacre at Paris. Since arriving at York in 2007, I have taught courses on Shakespeare, Contemporary Shakespeare Adaptations, Early Modern Political Theory, British Literature, Chaucer, and the Literature of Travel.