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Publications

I enjoy spending time in rare books rooms and combing through archives. Like any inveterate researcher, I am elated when I find that proverbial needle in the haystack. I view myself as being part of a contemporary community of scholars in dialogue with one another, and also as part of a legacy of learning that stretches back for centuries. Whether writing a monograph, chapter for a collection, encyclopedia entry, or book review, I am guided by both a sense of obligation to the profession and personal integrity. I publish my findings with the hope of advancing higher scholarly endeavor by alerting readers to a variety of compelling ways to recover and think about time-tried literary structures—and perhaps even perennial human issues as well, most notably the tricky nature of memory and how, historically, we have responded to the certain knowledge of our mortality.



Chiastic Designs in English
Literature  from Sidney to
Shakespeare
Aldershot and Burlington:
Ashgate (2009)


Death and Drama in
Renai
ssance
England: Shades of Memory

Oxford University Press
(2002)

 


Mapping Mortality
Univ. of Massachusetts
Press (1995)


Education & Anarchy

University Press of
America (2001)