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  • Associate Professor, English
  • Assistant Professor, English
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Presentations

  • "Ghosts of the Folio." In "Shakespeare's First Folio: The Most Famous Book You Don't Know." Marriott Library, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2016.
  • "Toward a Poetics of the Sewer." Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans LA, 04/2016. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2016.
  • "Resurrecting Shakespeare's Clowns." The McElroy Shakespeare Celebration, Loyola University, Chicago IL, 19 April 2016. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2016.
  • "Documents of Rehearsal." In "Shakespeare's Theatrical Documents," Folger Shakespeare Institute Symposium, 17-20 March 2016. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2016.
  • "The Alchemical Lavatory." Eight Biannual ASC Blackfriars Theater Conference, Staunton VA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/29/2015.
  • "Playing with Disability in Early Modern Theater," special paper session (organizer and chair), Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, BC. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2015.
  • “‘Stained With Variation’: Clowning, Theater, and Henry IV Parts I and II.” Shakespeare in Action Series, College of Art and Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/02/2014.
  • "The Face of _The Alchemist_." Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis MO. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2014.
  • Faculty Roundtable on _Coriolanus_ (open to the public). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2014.
  • Faculty Roundtable on _Macbeth_ (open to the public). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2013.
  • "Shakespeare and the Mythologies of Childhood" (seminar co-organizer and co-chair), World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, CZ. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/2013.
  • "_Romeo and Juliet_: Thinking Inside the Box". Noon Lecture (open to the public), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland OR. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/11/2012.
  • "Tick, Talk, _Hamlet_." _Modern Language Association_, Seattle WA. Panel chair, "Clocks, Jacks, Jacquemarts: Time as Character in Early Modern Drama." . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/05/2012.
  • "Interiority." Symposium, _Early Modern Theatricality in the 21st Century_, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/01/2011.
  • Lecturer, "Shakespeare Comprehensive" (4 day course), _Oregon Shakespeare Festival_, Ashland OR, scheduled 11-15 July 2012. Invited Talk/Keynote, Accepted, 10/2011.
  • "A Special Decorum: _Bartholomew Fair_ and the Lady Elizabeth’s Men." ISA World Shakespeare Congress, Prague CZ. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/20/2011.
  • "What Audiences Did", in special paper session of the Shakespeare Association of America, Bellevue, WA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/08/2011.
  • "Commonplacing Clowning in Q1 _Hamlet_." Shakespeare Association of America, Boston MA. Scheduled 5-7 April 2012. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/2011.

Publications

  • Robert Armin's _The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke_, in The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (Routledge, under contract, forthcoming 2020). Published, 03/2020.
  • "Undocumented: Improvisation, Rehearsal, and the Clown." in Tiffany Stern, ed. Rethinking Theatrical Documents_ (Bloomsbury/Arden). Published, 11/2019.
  • "English-Speaking Audiences: the 16th and 17th Centuries." _The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare_ (Print and Web), (Cambridge University Press). Published, 01/2016.
  • “John Taylor, William Fennor, and the ‘Trial of Wit.’” Shakespeare Studies. Published, 10/2015.
  • _Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre_ (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Published, 04/2014.
  • "Interiority", in Henry S. Turner, ed. _Early Modern Theatricality_ (Oxford University Press, 2014). Published, 01/2014.
  • The Tempest: Shakespeare in Performance (London: Methuen/Sourcebooks, 2008). Edited Text, Notes and Introduction by Richard Preiss. Published, 07/2008.
  • "A Play Finally Anonymous". Published, 05/2007.
  • "Robert Armin Do the Police in Different Voices." in Holland and Orgel, eds. _From Performance to Print in Shakespeare's England_. Published, 02/2006.
  • "Natural Authorship." _Renaissance Drama XXXIV_. Published, 04/2005.