Education 

PhD, Princeton University, 1993

Areas of Specialization 

Early Modern Literature
Classical Tradition

Recently Taught Courses 

   • History of Literary Theory
   • The Renaissance

Current Research Projects 

Literature and the Power of Forgiveness in Early Modern England

Selected Publications 

BOOKS
   • Stoicism, Politics, and Literature in the Age of Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

ESSAYS
   • "Shakespeare's Histories of Forgiveness." English Literary History, forthcoming 2018.
   • "The Poet as Feigned Example in Sidney’s Apology for Poetry." Modern Philology 114 (2016): 18-38.
   • "Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature." In The Routledge Handbook to the Stoic Tradition, ed. John Sellars, 174-86. London: Routledge, 2016.
   • "Milton and Forgiveness." In Renaissance Papers 2006, ed. Christopher Cobb and M. Thomas Hester, 137-49. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006.
   • "Kings, Poets, and the Power of Forgiveness, 1642-1660." English Literary Renaissance 33 (2003): 88-109.
   • "'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry." In Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints, ed. Ursula Appelt and Barbara Smith, 177-95. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.