Teaching

My primary teaching areas include late medieval and early modern literature; hagiography, martyrology, and passion drama; the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in England; Shakespeare, Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare in Performance; and non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama.

The Spanish Tragedy Project

 

Recent Courses

Core Literature and Writing: Aliens, Freaks, Norms, and Others    

British Literary Traditions I 

Elizabethan Literature: The Mask, the Pose, and the Effigy 

Honors Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Performance 

Shakespeare on Film 

Shakespeare’s Histories 

Medieval Saints and Sinners on the Renaissance Stage 

Non-Shakespearean Renaissance Drama 

Kings, Queens, and Tyrants: The Elizabethan Theatre of Power (poetry, prose, and drama) 

Revengers, Murderers, and Malcontents in Renaissance Tragedy 

King Lear in Drama, Fiction, and Film 

Shakespeare’s War Criminals  

Ways of Reading: An Introduction to Literary Analysis