My research centres on the English Renaissance (mainly, but not exclusively, drama) but within this sphere my interests are broad: textual studies, theatre history, classical influences on Renaissance writers, translation and language-learning, contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s plays, literature and medicine, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. I am currently working on several book projects: a biography of Judith Shakespeare (one of Shakespeare’s daughters); a book on dramatic collaboration (written collaboratively with Emma Smith of Hertford College); and a book on medical humanities.
I currently teach an annual course on Medical Humanities for the Oxford Medical School.
With Rory Loughnane and Heather Hirschfeld I am a general editor of the Routledge series on Early Modern Authorship, and I am on the editorial board of the Cambridge Elements series in Text and on the advisory board of the Oxford Marlowe. I am a Council member of the Shakespeare Globe Trust.
‘What is Early Modern Dramatic Collaboration?’ (with Emma Smith), Critical Survey 36: 1 (2024), 15-29.
‘Playing the Second Part’ in Shakespeare/Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking, and Performance ed. Emma Whipday (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).
‘Theater, Revision, and The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (with Emma Smith), Shakespeare Quarterly 72:3-4 (2022), 177-202.
‘Early Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Narrative Theory: Arden of Faversham and (the) Franklin’s Tale’ in Early Shakespeare ed. Rory Loughnane and Andrew Power (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 121-46.
‘On Editing’ (with Emma Smith), Shakespeare 15: 3 (2019), 293-309.
