I am an associate professor of English at Skidmore College, where I teach courses on early modern English drama and literary theory.

My first book, Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage (Oxford University Press, 2020), traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, arguing that such moments of “ecological thinking” make visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their environs. At the same time, I contend, these moments theorize and thematize the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. Exploring the relationship between these two registers of thought, Thinking Through Place posits drama as an aesthetic form capable of reshaping the way that environments were perceived, experienced, and navigated in early modern England.

I am currently completing a second book called Scenes of Dispossession: English Theater and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism. The book argues that dispossession represents the inaugural (or originary) act of racial capitalism, functioning as a means of accumulation, a fulcrum for the extraction and commodification of labor, and a site around which definitions of property are formed. The book traces the development of a racialized logics of dispossession across the early modern Anglophone world, establishing how explorers, colonists, merchants, political theorists, and religious figures sought to justify the expropriation of land across the Americas and the culture of enslavement that followed in its wake. Scenes of Dispossession examines how English theater translated those logics into a set of scripts, scenarios, and personae, transforming racial capitalism from “a system of production,” in the words of Stuart Hall, into “a whole form of social life.”

With Penelope Geng, I am co-editing a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on “Disability and Racial Capitalism,” set to appear in Spring 2026. My essays and articles have also appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Studies, Studies in Philology, and SEL, as well as the edited collections Revivals and Reprints of Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2026), Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), and Shakespeare/Space (Bloomsbury/Arden, 2024).

I currently serve on the editorial advisory board of Early Theatre, having previously served as the Secretary for the Marlowe Society of America. In addition to serving as a peer reviewer for various journals and presses, I have reviewed fellowship applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and my own work has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the RaceB4Race Second Book Institute.