Research
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Publications
Publications
“Shakespeare and Seneca in Print: Collections, Authorship, Collaboration, and Pedagogies of Play-reading.” Memoria di Shakespeare: A Journal of Shakespeare Studies 10 (2023): 1-42. Open Access: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/memoria_di_shakespeare/article/view/18612
“‘Baggage Bookes’ and the Shakespeare First Folio: Towards A Critical Historiography of the Book.” Shakespeare Quarterly, 74.1 (2023): 387-385. https://doi.org/10.1093/sq/quad043
“‘A Gifte of good Moment’: A New History of the Stationers’ Agreement with the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616.” The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Ed. Adam Smyth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198846239.013.23
“Library Records and the Stationers of London: The Bodleian Daybook (1613 to 1620).” Textual Cultures 16.1 (Spring 2023): 142-207. https://doi.org/10.14434/tc.v16i1.36102. Open Access: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/textual/article/view/36102/39218
“Reading a Lost Book: Ben Jonson’s Epigrammes (c.1612) and Disposable Authorship.” English Literary Renaissance 53.1 (2023): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1086/722729
“New Evidence for Ben Jonson’s Epigrammes (ca. 1612) in Bodleian Library Records.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 113.3 (2020): 343-364.https://doi.org/10.1086/710019
“Richard Jones, Tamburlaine the Great, and the Making (and Re-making) of a Serial Play Collection in the 1590s.” Christopher Marlowe: Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade. Eds. Kirk Melnikoff and Roslyn Knutson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 149-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316422120.011
“Publishers of English Drama, 1580 -1640.” A New Companion to Renaissance Drama. Eds. Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper. 2nd edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, 560-575.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118824016.ch39
“Shakespeare in Print before the Folio.” Cambridge Companion to the First Folio. Ed. Emma Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781316162552.002
“Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern Stage.” Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence and Gender in Early Modern Literature and the Arts. Ed. Mara Wade. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2013, 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401210232_013
“Serials, Spinoffs, and Histories: Selling ‘Shakespeare’ in Collection before the First Folio.” Philological Quarterly 91.2 (2012): 185-220.
“Male Birth Fantasies and Maternal Monarchs: The Queen’s Men and The Troublesome Raigne of King John.” Locating the Queen’s Men, 1583-1603. Eds. Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew Griffin. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2009. 183-197.
Accepted and In Production
“Folio and Format: Supersizing Shakespeare.” The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023. Ed. Samuel V. Lemley. Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Penn State University Press. (5800 words). Forthcoming in 2024.
“Collections: Shakespeare, W.W. Greg, and the Bibliography of English Printed Drama.” Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Authorship. Eds. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe. Oxford University Press. (8,048 words). Forthcoming, 2025.
Textual Editions
“The Library of the Countess of Kent (née Lady Elizabeth Talbot).” Private Libraries of Renaissance England: A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists. PLRE 299. Vol. 10. Gen. Eds. R. J. Fehrenbach & Joseph L. Black (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020), 325-361.
Hester Pulter, “Of Night and Morning” Amplified Edition with Headnote and Curations. The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making (Digital Edition). General Editors Leah Knight and Wendy Wall. *The Pulter Project was awarded Best Project in Digital Scholarship from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. October 2019. http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/poems/ae/of-night-and-morning/
Digital Projects
Shakespeare in Sheets. https://about.illinoisstate.edu/shakespeareinsheets
This open-access digital resource recreates Shakespeare quartos in printable and foldable sheets of paper, just as they were issued from the printing presses in early modern England. The Shakespeare in Sheets editions are designed by the talented students in English Studies at Illinois State University.
Early Modern Female Book Ownership (EMFBO) https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
Collaborative blog featuring posts on books owned by women between 1500 and 1750.
* Project won Honorable Mention for 2020 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award by the Society for the Student of Early Modern Women and Gender.
- Co-authored with Sarah Lindenbaum, “John Dryden, Satires of Juvenal and Persius (1693).” August 2020. https://buff.ly/3aQcapn
- “ “Elizabeth Grey, the Countess of Kent: Early Reader of Giovanni Thommaso Minadoi, Historia della guerra fra Turchhi et Persiani (Venice, 1594).” September 9, 2019. http://ow.ly/qiJB50w2J4d
- Mary Wood: Early Reader of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, A King and No King (1631) and George Gascoigne’s Hundreth Sundry Flowres [1573].” August 5, 2019. http://ow.ly/kEcU50vnUE4
- “Early Female Readers of Sir Hugh Plat’s Delights for Ladies (1617) and Closet for Ladies (1618).” April 15, 2019. https://buff.ly/2KFt2po
In Progress
Monograph, “Collected Plays: English Printed Drama and the "Stuff" of a Genre. Expected completion 2024.
Textual Edition: William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, “The First Part of the Contention” and “Henry the Sixth Part 2,” for Oxford Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. General Eds. Rory Loughnane and Catherine Richardson. Oxford University Press. Expected completion 2026.
Awards
- Rare Book School, Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship, 2018-19. Supports tuition and travel to complete one course, “English Bookbinding” taught by David Pearson at the University of Virginia Rare Book School. Summer 2018.
- Sassoon Visiting Fellowship 2017-18, Bodleian Library. Supports four weeks of research at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, June 2018.
- International Studies Grant. Illinois State University. Supported research in London, Oxford, Wittenberg. Summer 2018.
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, “Large Project Management.” University of Victoria, June 2016.
- Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant. Illinois State University. Supported three weeks of research at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, May 2016.
- New Faculty Initiative Grant. Illinois State University. Supported two weeks of research at the National Library of Scotland, University of Edinburgh, and St. Andrews University. June 2015.
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, “Introduction to Paleography: Spring Intensive Skills Course.” Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2015.
- Honorable Mention, J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize, Shakespeare Association of America, March 2012.
- Nominee for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, Spring 2012. One of two faculty members at UMass-Dartmouth nominated to apply
- Nina Baym Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois, August 2009 - July 2010
- Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois, August 2009. For one-month travel to special collections libraries in Oxford, Cambridge, and London
- Huntington Library Fellowship (Francis Bacon Foundation), San Marino, California, October 2009. For one month of research in residence.
- Newberry Library Renaissance Consortium Grant, Chicago, Illinois, January 2010. For short-term research.
Scholarly Talks and Presentations
Keynote
“Early Modern Collections and the Authorial Straightjacket,” Northern Plains Conference on Early
British Literature, University of South Dakota April 21-23, 2022.
Invited Talks
“Collected Plays: Bundles and the Making of Literary Drama,” Medieval and Renaissance Seminar at the University of Leeds, UK, Nov. 29, 2023. Online.
“Baggage Bookes” and the Shakespeare First Folio.” 400 Years of the Shakespeare First Folio: Separating Fact from Fiction Symposium. Ohio State University. October 27, 2023.
‘‘Shakespeare old’: The Price of Sequestered Shakespeare.” Yale University First Folio Symposium. Sponsored by the Yale English Department and the Elizabethan Club. September 29, 2023.
“A New History of Deposit: ‘Gifts; from London Stationers to the Bodleian Library, 1610-1616.”Medieval and Early Modern Studies Newcastle/Stationers’ Company Seminar Series. Online. February 23, 2022.
“Finding English Playbooks in the Early-Seventeenth Century Institutional Library.” Warburg Institute’s History of Libraries Seminar. London. Online. October 5, 2021.
“Unpacking Bodley’s Baggage Books.” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar. University of Kent, Canterbury, England. Online, March 2021.
“Ben Jonson’s Epigram[m]es (1612): New Evidence from Bodleian Library Records.” The Other First Folio: Ben Jonson Colloquium. St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, December 2018.
“The First English Playbooks in the Bodleian Library.” Centre for the Study of the Book. Bodleian
Library, Oxford, UK, July 2018.
“How and Why Plays Were Collected in Early Modern Libraries.” Shakespeare, the Book Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, October 2016.
“The Dangers of Commonplacing: Reading Seneca in the English Drama Collection.” Society of Textual Studies. Seattle, WA, March 2014.
“Collecting ‘Shakespeare’ before the Folio.” Harvard Humanities Center’s Shakespeare Seminar Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2013.
“Rewriting a History of the English Play Collection: Serials, Part-Plays, and Tamburlaine (1590).” International Marlowe Conference. Mary Baldwin College and American Shakespeare Center. Staunton, VA, June 2013.
“Whereby she caught her shame: Norton’s Treatises, Mary Queen of Scots, and The Tragedy for Ferrex and Porrex (1570).” Harvard Humanities Center’s Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2013.
Conference Presentations and Seminars
“Hazlitt’s Roll of Honor: Towards a Feminist Historiography of the Book,” Renaissance Society of America Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023.
Seminar Co-Leader with Sarah Lindenbaum and Martine van Elk, “New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Female Book Ownership.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Jacksonville, Florida, March 2022.
“Reading ‘Collected Marlowe’ in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Asynchronous seminar, March 2020.
“Accidents, Waste, and Binding Ben Jonson’s Works (1616) for the Early Bodleian Library.” Histories, Theories, and Uses of Waste Paper in Early Modern England. Balliol College, Oxford. June 2019.
“Marlowe’s 1&2 Tamburlaine and the Troublesome Division of Plays.” International Marlowe Association of America Conference. Wittenberg, Germany, July 2018.
“The Library of Elizabeth (née Talbot) Grey, the Countess of Kent.” Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, April 2018.“Reading the Whole Play Collection: Seneca Beyond the Commonplace.” Bibliography Among the Disciplines, Rare Book School. Philadelphia, PA, October 2017.
“Plays in Collection: Group Entries in the Stationers’ Register.” Presenter and Panel Co-Organizer. Panel Title: “Shared Archives, New Methods: Book History & Theater History Across Media.” Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, April 2017.
“Reading Plays Holistically in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 2017.
Seminar Co-Leader with Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, “Women Making Texts in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2015.
“The Commercial Relationship Between Parts: Tamburlaine 1&2 in Performance and Print.” Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center. Staunton, VA, October 2015.
“Beyond the Professional Playbook: The Market for Printed Drama in Early Modern England.” St. Andrews University Book Conference: Buying and Selling. St Andrews, Scotland, June 2015.
“Universal Short Title Catalogue Review.” Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, MO. April 2014.
“Early Modern Collections and the Authorial Straightjacket,” Northern Plains Conference on Early
British Literature, University of South Dakota April 21-23, 2022.
Invited Talks
“Collected Plays: Bundles and the Making of Literary Drama,” Medieval and Renaissance Seminar at the University of Leeds, UK, Nov. 29, 2023. Online.
“Baggage Bookes” and the Shakespeare First Folio.” 400 Years of the Shakespeare First Folio: Separating Fact from Fiction Symposium. Ohio State University. October 27, 2023.
‘‘Shakespeare old’: The Price of Sequestered Shakespeare.” Yale University First Folio Symposium. Sponsored by the Yale English Department and the Elizabethan Club. September 29, 2023.
“A New History of Deposit: ‘Gifts; from London Stationers to the Bodleian Library, 1610-1616.”Medieval and Early Modern Studies Newcastle/Stationers’ Company Seminar Series. Online. February 23, 2022.
“Finding English Playbooks in the Early-Seventeenth Century Institutional Library.” Warburg Institute’s History of Libraries Seminar. London. Online. October 5, 2021.
“Unpacking Bodley’s Baggage Books.” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar. University of Kent, Canterbury, England. Online, March 2021.
“Ben Jonson’s Epigram[m]es (1612): New Evidence from Bodleian Library Records.” The Other First Folio: Ben Jonson Colloquium. St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, December 2018.
“The First English Playbooks in the Bodleian Library.” Centre for the Study of the Book. Bodleian
Library, Oxford, UK, July 2018.
“How and Why Plays Were Collected in Early Modern Libraries.” Shakespeare, the Book Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, October 2016.
“The Dangers of Commonplacing: Reading Seneca in the English Drama Collection.” Society of Textual Studies. Seattle, WA, March 2014.
“Collecting ‘Shakespeare’ before the Folio.” Harvard Humanities Center’s Shakespeare Seminar Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2013.
“Rewriting a History of the English Play Collection: Serials, Part-Plays, and Tamburlaine (1590).” International Marlowe Conference. Mary Baldwin College and American Shakespeare Center. Staunton, VA, June 2013.
“Whereby she caught her shame: Norton’s Treatises, Mary Queen of Scots, and The Tragedy for Ferrex and Porrex (1570).” Harvard Humanities Center’s Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2013.
Conference Presentations and Seminars
“Hazlitt’s Roll of Honor: Towards a Feminist Historiography of the Book,” Renaissance Society of America Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023.
Seminar Co-Leader with Sarah Lindenbaum and Martine van Elk, “New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Female Book Ownership.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Jacksonville, Florida, March 2022.
“Reading ‘Collected Marlowe’ in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Asynchronous seminar, March 2020.
“Accidents, Waste, and Binding Ben Jonson’s Works (1616) for the Early Bodleian Library.” Histories, Theories, and Uses of Waste Paper in Early Modern England. Balliol College, Oxford. June 2019.
“Marlowe’s 1&2 Tamburlaine and the Troublesome Division of Plays.” International Marlowe Association of America Conference. Wittenberg, Germany, July 2018.
“The Library of Elizabeth (née Talbot) Grey, the Countess of Kent.” Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, April 2018.“Reading the Whole Play Collection: Seneca Beyond the Commonplace.” Bibliography Among the Disciplines, Rare Book School. Philadelphia, PA, October 2017.
“Plays in Collection: Group Entries in the Stationers’ Register.” Presenter and Panel Co-Organizer. Panel Title: “Shared Archives, New Methods: Book History & Theater History Across Media.” Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, April 2017.
“Reading Plays Holistically in Early Modern England.” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL, March 2017.
Seminar Co-Leader with Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, “Women Making Texts in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2015.
“The Commercial Relationship Between Parts: Tamburlaine 1&2 in Performance and Print.” Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center. Staunton, VA, October 2015.
“Beyond the Professional Playbook: The Market for Printed Drama in Early Modern England.” St. Andrews University Book Conference: Buying and Selling. St Andrews, Scotland, June 2015.
“Universal Short Title Catalogue Review.” Shakespeare Association of America, St. Louis, MO. April 2014.
Professional Service
- Advisory Board, Taming of the Shrew Digital Edition, CEDAR Project. General Editor Ellen MacKay, University of Chicago. Spring 2018- Present.
- Advisory Board, Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN), International Peer Review Board for Digital Work in Renaissance Studies, Fall 2016-Present
- Referee Renaissance Quarterly, Manchester University Press, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Marlowe Studies.