Publications

“Beyond Earwitnesses: Thomas Dekker’s Soundwriting,” an expansion of the sound studies keyword “earwitness” using Dekker’s acoustic imagination as a case study, in Literature as Sound Studies, ed. Yasser Elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi (Bloomsbury, under contract).

Review of The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata by Pamela Allen Brown, and Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre by Harry R. McCarthy, Shakespeare Quarterly 74, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 158–161. 

“Extant / Ephemeral,” an essay on musical loss and survival with a focus on Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, in Shakespeare / Text, ed. Claire M. L. Bourne (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2021), 343–59, ISBN: 9781350128156.

"An Organ for the Seraglio: Thomas Dallam's Artifical Life," an essay on fantasies of belonging in an Elizabethan organ-maker’s narrative of his journey to Constantinople, Renaissance Studies 34, no. 5 (November 2020): 766-83

“Shakespeare’s Notation: Writing Sound in Much Ado About Nothing," an essay on writing processes entwined with musical performance, in the Theories and Methodologies forum on “Aurality and Literacy,” PMLA 135, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 370–77

Unwritten Poetry: Song, Performance, and Media in Early Modern England, a monograph about vocal music in the poetic and theatrical cultures of the English Renaissance, winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature (Oxford University Press, 2019). Introduction freely available here.

Introduction to “The Intermedia Restoration,” a special issue of Restoration, vol 42, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 3–11

"The Sounds of Pageantry," an introduction to the noisy soundscape of royal entries and Lord Mayor’s Shows, peer reviewed and published with the Map of Early Modern London web project, ed. Janelle Jenstad, University of Victoria, June 2015

“Performing Women in English Books of Ayres,” an essay on female performance in the lute song tradition, in Gender and Song in Early Modern England, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Katherine R. Larson (Ashgate Press, 2014), 15–29

"Occasion," an essay on outdoor pageantry and performance theory, in Early Modern Theatricality, Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature, ed. Henry S. Turner (Oxford University Press, 2013), 230–49

"'Unto the world's ear': Wyatt’s Psalms Beyond the Court," an essay on the varied modes of address in Thomas Wyatt’s paraphrase of the Penitential Psalms, Studies in Philology 110, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 266–90

"The Mediation of Poesie: Ophelia's Orphic Song," an essay on Hamlet and media theory, Shakespeare Quarterly 63, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 46–76