Biography

I am a book historian and literary critic of women's writing during the English Renaissance. I am currently heading the curation of an exhibit upcoming in 2021 at Harvard's Houghton Rare Books and Manuscripts Library on "500 Years of Women Authors, Self-Authorizing." My writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as various academic journals and blogs.

My dissertation, "Woman Encoded: Narratives of Identity", follows the stories of four early modern women, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Lady Mary Wroth, and how their ownership and authorship of books gave rise to projects of memorial reconstruction.