Education
- Ph.D., English, Saint Louis University
- M.A., English, Saint Louis University
- Masters, Estudios Culturales y Literarios Anglo-Norteamericanos, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- B.A., English and Spanish, Southwestern University
Courses Taught
- Methods for Literary Research
- English Seminar in Disability Studies
- Shakespeare
- Introduction to Literature
- English Composition
Research Interests
- Shakespeare
- Early Modern English Drama
- Disability Studies
- Representations of the Body
Selected Publications
- “Disability and the ‘spectacle of strangeness’: The Construction of Hags in The Masque of Queenes.” Ben Jonson Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp. 253-263 (forthcoming).
- “Blood Baths: Social Transgression and the Inverted Womb.” Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays, edited by Harriet E.H. Earle, McFarland, 2019, pp. 76-92.
- “Masquerading Early Modern Disability: Sexuality, Violence, and the Body (Politic) in Richard III.” Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display, vol. 3, no. 1, 2018, pp. 98-108.
- “Boy Actors and Early Modern Disability Comedy in The Knight of the Burning Pestleand Epicoene.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 5-21.
- “Continental Sexuality and the Auditory Construction of Early Modern Englishness.”Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare, edited by Michael Saenger, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2014, pp. 122-37.
- “‘There is no suff’ring due’: Metatheatricality and Disability Drag in Volpone.” Recovering Disability in Early Modern England, edited by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood, Ohio State UP, 2013, pp. 123-35.