EDUCATION

A.B., Harvard University
Ph.D., Stanford University

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in women in early modern culture, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, lyric and epic poetry, history of science, and women writers of the seventeenth century.

COURSES

 EN529.01- Shakespeare & Later Plays

 EN873 - Shakespeare

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (2003).
• "Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England," in Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregivers in the Early Modern Period (2000).
• "Backsliding at Ephesus: Shakespeare's Diana and the Churching of Women," in Pericles: Critical Essays (2000).
• "Manhandling Midwives: Home Birth and Domestic Invasion in Early Modern England," Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Southwest Symposium (Spring 1996): 1-14.