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 an edited collection, Logomotives: Words that Change the World, 1400 -1700. I am co-curator of a campus-wide special exhibit, Shakespeare Unbound, and co-organizer of the upcoming conference: Knowledge Relations to be held at the University of Michigan in 2025.

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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