Selected Publications

Publications

     Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 248 pp.

            Reviews: Stephen B. Dobranski, Studies in English Literature 49.1 (2009): 256; David

            Hillman, Shakespeare Quarterly 62.2 (2011): 290-92; Julie Sanders, Shakespeare

            Survey 62 (2009): 397, 405-06; Ellen Spolsky, Renaissance Quarterly 62.3 (2009):

            1035-36.

Critical Essays

      “Fantasies of Private Language in Shakespeare’s ‘Phoenix and Turtle’ and Donne’s

‘Ecstasy’” in Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids in the Cultural Imaginary,

 eds. Judith Anderson and Jennifer Vaught (forthcoming)

      “The Politics of Truth in Herbert of Cherbury.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature

 54.1 (2012)

      “Forms of Oblivion: Losing the Revels Office at St. John’s,” Shakespeare Quarterly   

             62.1 (2011): 75 – 105.

     “Shakespearean Vertigo: W. G. Sebald’s Lear.” Criticism 52.1 (2010): 1 – 24.

     “The Skeptical Ethics of John Donne: The Case of Ignatius his Conclave.”  Reading

            Renaissance Ethics. Ed. Marshall Grossman (Routledge, 2007): 367 – 405.

Reviews:  Catherine Gimelli Martin, Studies in English Literature 48.1 (2008): 199-200; Benedict S. Robinson, The Review of English Studies, 59.239 (2008): 292-94. 

     “The Aesthetic Strategies of Skepticism: Mixing Memory and Desire in Montaigne and

Shakespeare.”  Shakespearean International Yearbook 6.  Ed. Graham Bradshaw,

Tom Bishop and Peter Holbrook (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006): 99 – 118. Review:

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Sixteenth Century Journal 40.2 (2009): 472-73.

     “John Donne and Spain.”  Studies in Honor of Denah Lida. Ed. Mary G. Berg and Lanin A.

Gyurko (Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 2005): 71 – 83. Review: A. B. Solis,

Hispania 88.4 (2005): 750-51.

     “Disowning Knowledge of Jessica, or Shylock’s Skepticism.”  Studies in English

Literature 44.2 (Spring 2004): 277 – 295. Review: James Purkis, The Year’s Work in

English Studies 85 (2004): 384.

     “The Status of Charity in Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody II.”

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 12 (1999): 99 – 120; Review: Matthew

Steggle, The Year’s Work in English Studies 80 (1999): 310. 

     “El Viento como Destino en la Obra de Garcilaso de la Vega.” Revista Sin Nombre 14

(1984): 132 – 143.  

Reviews

      Rev. of Shakespeare’s Memory Theatre by Lina Perkins Wilder (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2010).  Shakespeare Quarterly (forthcoming)

      Rev. of Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare by William E.

 Engel (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2009). Sixteenth Century

 Society Journal 42.2 (2011):

      Rev. of Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. Ed. Curtis Perry and John Watkins (Oxford:

 Oxford University Press, 2009).  Sixteenth Century Society Journal 42.2 (2011):

     “Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word: A Response to Margaret Fetzer.”

Connotations 19.1-3 (2009 / 2010): 14 -20. (Followed by “An Answer to Edmund

Miller and Anita Gilman Sherman” by Margret Fetzer, Connotations 20.2-3

(2010/2011): 221-27.)

      Rev. of Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550

-1700 by Kate Chedgzoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).  Early

 Modern Women 3 (2008): 335-38.

     “Women and the Pedagogical Structures of Memory” (conference workshop report).

Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. Joan E. Hartman

and Adele Seeff (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007): 370 – 71.   

     Rev. of Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe’s Legacies, Ed.

Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams (London: Routledge, 2004).  EMLS (Early Modern

Literary Studies) 11.2 (9/2005):8.1-6.

    “Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century.”  Viewpoint Column.  Inaugural issue of

Literature Compass (on-line journal published by Blackwell).  12/2003.