Education 

PhD, Princeton University, 1993

Areas of Specialization 

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature
The Classical Tradition

Recently Taught Courses 

   • Shakespeare
   • The Renaissance
   • Ideas of the Poet, Ancient to Modern
   • The British Epic from Spenser to Ossian
   • Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry

Current Research Projects 

Literature and the Power of Forgiveness in Early Modern England

Selected Publications 

BOOKS
   • Stoicism, Politics, and Literature in the Age of Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

ESSAYS
   • "The 'Restoration' of 1603: Samuel Daniel’s Tudor-Stuart Myth." In Renaissance Papers 2024, ed. Jim Pearce and Lisandra Estevez. Rochester, NY: Camden House, forthcoming 2025.
   • "Shakespeare's Histories of Forgiveness." English Literary History 85 (2018): 33-53.
   • "The Poet as Feigned Example in Sidney’s Apology for Poetry." Modern Philology 114 (2016): 18-38.
   • "Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature." In The Routledge Handbook to the Stoic Tradition, ed. John Sellars, 174-86. London: Routledge, 2016.
   • "Milton and Forgiveness." In Renaissance Papers 2006, ed. Christopher Cobb and M. Thomas Hester, 137-49. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006.
   • "Kings, Poets, and the Power of Forgiveness, 1642-1660." English Literary Renaissance 33 (2003): 88-109.
   • "'Subdu'd by You': States of Friendship and Friends of the State in Katherine Philips's Poetry." In Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints, ed. Ursula Appelt and Barbara Smith, 177-95. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001; London: Routledge, 2018.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS
   • "The 'Restoration' of 1603." Southeastern Renaissance Association. The Citadel. September 2024.
   • "The Stoic Eve: Grotius, Milton, Dryden." Unsettling Certainties: Fourth Biennial Conference of the  Society for the History of Emotions. University of Adelaide. November 2023.
   • "Looking for Forgiveness in the Tudor Myth." Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. St. Louis University. June 2023.
   • "After Before Forgiveness: Forgiveness as Tradition." Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. January 2019.
   • "Belial's Hope: The Problem of Forgiveness in Milton's Paradise Lost." American Comparative Literature Association. Harvard University. March 2016.