I am Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies. I serve on the Board of Directors for the Renaissance Society of America as the Associate Organizations and International Cooperation Chair and on the Executive Committee of the Folger Institute Consortium.

I am currently at work on a number of projects including a monograph entitled, “A World of Words: Language, Earth and Embodiment in the Renaissance,” and a multi-pronged collaborative project with Sawyer Kemp and Simone Chess we’re calling ROAR!, which begins but does not end with a series of provocations about Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl. I have recently published a co-edited collection, Logomotives: Words that Change the World, 1400 -1700, am curator of a campus-wide special exhibit, Shakespeare Unbound, and am currently enjoying participating in a year-long Folger seminar: Shakespeare, Publics, and the Humanities.

Committed to developing collaborative models for innovative cross-disciplinary research and public humanities exchange, I have founded and partnered on a number of long-term scholarly and artistic projects with the goal of discovering the synergies that enliven our work and our lives. Most recently, these projects include: the Renaissance of the Earth and the Anthropocene Lab. Please reach out if you discover intersections with your own work or shared curiosities.

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