Title: Associate Professor
Research Themes:
- 16th -17th Century Theatre
- 16th -17th Century Court Masque
- History of the Book
- History of Ideas
- Translation
Current Projects:
- Book project: Fortune in Shakespeare
- Book project (under contract: “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe”, Toronto): Translation and Critical Edition of a French proto-feminist treatise: Marguerite Buffet, Eloges, 1668
- Article: The reception of the Renaissance court masque in the work of Gordon Craig (1872-1966)
Education and Academic Positions:
Education
- 1985, BA., Princeton University, Classics.
- 1991, MA, University of Virginia, English.
- 2000, Ph.D., University of Virigina, English. Dissertation: “Ben Jonson’s Envious Muse”.
Academic Positions:
- 2003-2010, Lecturer, Université Paris 13 Université de Paris 13, I.U.T. de Villetaneuse.
- Depuis 2010, Associate Professor, Université Paris-Diderot
Administrative Responsibilities: :
- 2011-present, Director of Translation Studies Section, Department of English
- 2016-17, Campus France, Department of English
Research Supervision:
- Shakespeare
- 16th -17th Century English Literature
- Renaissance court masque
- Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Reception of Renaissance Drama
- Translation, French to English
Selected Publications:
Book:
- Ben Jonson and Envy, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Selected articles and book chapters:
- “The Characters of Posterity in Jonson’s The Masque of Blacknesse and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”, HLQ 73, n°1 (2010).
- “The Tangled Thread of Authorship: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus, His Fall” dans Medieval and Early Modern Authorship. SPELL. Swiss Papers in Early Modern Language and Literature 25. Ed. Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne. Tübingen: Narr, 2011.
- “From Grotesque to Gothic: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queenes” in Gothic Renaissance: A Reassessment. Eds. Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014; 113-136.
- “‘High-Pilèd Books in Charac’try’ : Ben Jonson’s Masques" in The Oxford Handbook of Jonson. Ed. Eugene Giddens. Oxford University Press. en ligne, April 2016; version imprimé, 2018.
