I specialize in the literature of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, with a special interest in non-dramatic poetry and in the interaction between literature and the visual arts. My current research is on poetic descriptions of buildings and the relationship between literature and architecture across the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance periods. In addition to experience teaching in the University of Chicago writing program, my teaching interests span the Early Modern period, including experience teaching Shakespeare, and a recent course on Renaissance poetry and the visual arts, which includes attention to dramatic, epic and lyric poetry as well as a variety of visual art forms. In addition to my research and teaching, I also act as co-coordinator for the University of Chicago Renaissance Workshop and as co-organizer for the conference "Intellectual Exchange and Networks in Europe: 1500-1650: Approaches from the Humanities and Social Sciences" to be held in Spring of 2010.

Britomart, the woman warrior in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Workshop Links Renaissance Workshop Interdisciplinary Intellectual Exchange Conference Course Links Envisioning the Renaissance Psalm Project Penitential Psalms Project (A work in progress offering a comparison of different Renaissance translations of the Penitential Psalms.)

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