courses at Sewanee:

Easter Semester 2026:

Intro to Lit (ENGL 101-F);
16th-cen Lit (ENGL 359);
Fencing (PHED 106 & 306)

upcoming presentations:

"Early Modern Printing Patents,"  Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Montreal,  6 June 2026

"Visuality and the Early Modern Paper world,"  Plenary Speaker at the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, 24 Oct 2026

"The Afterlife of Sidney’s Argalus and Parthenia,"  SCSC, Chicago, 30 Oct

"Speaking with the dead," Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 10 Dec 2026

"Cuing Backstories in the Shakespearean Text," plenary lecture, European Shakespeare Research Association, Univ of Bangor, Wales, 26 July 2027

upcoming publications:

"The Mindful Frontispiece," chapter in a collection, Intersections (Brill, 2026)

"Imagining Feline Consciousness," in The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2026)

"Aemilia Lanyer's Subtle Art of Death,"  in Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2026)

"The Renaissance Aural Imagination," special issue of The Sidney Journal (2027)

"Poe's Poetry,"  in The Routledge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe (2027)

"Reconsidering  Richard II:

a play written entirely in verse," for Lyric Shakespeare (Cambridge UP, 2027)

book contract:

Learning to Love in the English Renaissance, co-edited with Rory Loughnane and Grant Williams (Cambridge UP, 2027)