Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

• Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, Volume IV, Mary Wroth  (edited collection including introduction surveying the history of criticism in the field) (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).
• Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Selected Articles

•  “‘More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true’: Mary Wroth’s Indefensible Apologies for  Poetry,” in The History of British Women’s Writing 1610-1690, vol. 3, ed. Mihoko Suzuki (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011): 155-170.
•  “The Shepheardes Calender,” in The Spenser Handbook, ed. Richard McCabe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 160-177.
•  “Sidney’s Arcadia, Romance, and the Responsive Woman Reader” in A Companion to Tudor Literature and Culture 1485-1603, ed. Kent Cartwright (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010): 395-411.
• “The Gentlewoman Reader Writes Back: Mrs Stanley’s Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia Moderniz’d,”  Sidney Journal 27 (2009): 39-53.
•    “Undoing Romance: Beaumont and Fletcher’s Resistant Reading of The Countess of  Pembroke’s Arcadia,” in Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance and Shakespeare.  Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne (New York: Routledge, 2009):  203-218.
• “Beyond Shakespeare,” in What Should I Read Next?  Ed.  Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008): 179-183.
• “Clamorous Voices, Incontinent Fictions; Orality, Oratory and Gender in William Baldwin’sBeware the Cat,” Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Texts, ed. Karen Bamford and Mary Ellen Lamb (Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2008): 195-208.
• “Chaucer’s Dialogic Imagination: Teaching the Multiple Discourses of Troilus and Criseyde” in Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, ed. Angela Weisl and Tison Pugh (2007)
• “‘Love which hath never done’: The Countess of Pembroke’s Elegies and the Apology for Copia,” The Sidney Journal 21 (2004).
• "Marginal Presence, Lyric Resonance, Epic Absence: Troilus and Criseyde and/in The Shepheardes Calender," Spenser Studies (2004).
• "'Beleeve this butt a fiction': Female Authorship, Narrative Undoing and the Limits of Romance in The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania," Spenser Studies (2003).
• "''What s/he ought to have been': Romancing Truth in Spencer Redivivus." Spenser Studies (2002).
• "Mary Wroth's Guilty 'Secrett Art': The poetics of Jealousy in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" in Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints, ed. U. Appelt and B. Smith (2001).
• "Infinite Riches and Very Little Room: Speeding Through Some Sonnets in the Introductory Historical Survey" in Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. P Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott (2000).
• "Epic Transgression and the Framing of Agency in Dido Queen of Carthage" SEL (2000).
• "Thomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the Solaas of Sentence in Troilus and Criseyde" in Chaucer Refigured in the Renaissance, ed Theresa M. Krier (1998).
• "Feigning Female Faining: Spenser, Lodge, Shakespeare and Rosalind," MP (1998).
• "Endgames: Gender, Genre and Closure in Anna Weamys's Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia" Sidney Newsletter and Journal (1997).
• "Chivalry Unmasked: Courtly Spectacle and the Abuses of Romance in Sidney's New Arcadia," SEL (1995).
• "The (Dis)embodied Hero and the Signs of Manhood in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," in Medieval Masculinities, ed. Clare A. Lees (1994).
• "Postscript from the Canon's Mouth," Callaloo, (1994).
• "Lost in Translation: The Vicissitudes of the Heroine and the Immasculation of the Reader in a Seventeenth-Century Paraphrase of Troilus and Criseyde," Exemplaria (1993).
• "'Who made this song?': The Engendering of Lyric Counterplots in Troilus and Criseyde," SP (1992).
• "The Masks of Love: Desire and Metamorphosis in Sidney's New Arcadia," Criticism (1991).

Honors

Paul W. Mellon Fellow, Yale, 1979-1981