I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where I specialize in Shakespeare and early modern literature. I received my Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008, and I am the author of Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (Ashgate, 2011) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (Ashgate, forthcoming 2012), a collection of essays exploring the role of the immigrant and alien in Shakespeare’s England and work. I am currently at work on Stranger Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Mexican America, a study that examines first-generation, Latino/a attention to Shakespeare. My research interests include sixteenth-century cultural studies, early modern drama, post-Reformation religious studies, and gender studies. I teach courses on Shakespeare’s Plays and Poetry, Sixteenth-Century Prose and Poetry, the survey of English Literature, Literary Criticism, and Women in Literature.
Books
Shakespeare and Immigration (with David Ruiter) (2012)
This collection is forthcoming in 2012 from Ashgate Publishing. This book examines the role of,...
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England (2011)
This book offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological "loss" of the Virgin Mary...
Articles
"Can no prayers pierce thee?": Re-imagining Marian Intercession in The Merchant of Venice, Explorations in Renaissance Culture (2009)
In post-Reformation England, anti-Catholic polemics delineated Marian devotion as dangerous, if not idolatrous, and attacked...
Book Chapters
Fluellen’s Foreign Identity and the Ill Neighborhood of King Henry V, Shakespeare and Immigration (2012)
This chapter is forthcoming in 2012. This essay considers Shakespeare’s attention to Fluellen’s foreignness in...
Performing the Immigration Debate: Mexican Identities in YouTube Shakespeare, Shakespeare Spinoffs and Citations on Stage and Screen (2012)
This book chapter is forthcoming in 2012. The collection is under contract at Palgrave. In...