I am an associate professor of English at Skidmore College, where I teach courses on early modern English drama and literary theory.

My first book, Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage (Oxford University Press, 2020), traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, arguing that such moments of “ecological thinking” make visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their environs. At the same time, the book contends, these moments theorize and thematize the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. In exploring the relationship between these two registers of thought, Thinking Through Place posits drama as an aesthetic form capable of reshaping the way that environments were perceived, experienced, and navigated in early modern England.

I am currently at work on a second monograph that asks how English drama registers the emergence of racial capitalism and makes its logics legible and thinkable to a wider audience. My essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Shakespeare Studies, Modern Philology, Studies in Philology, SEL, and the edited collections Shakespeare/Space (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2024). My research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the ACMRS RaceB4Race Second Book Institute.