#  Biography 

 



 I am a book historian and critic of women's writing in the English Renaissance. I am currently heading the curation of an exhibition coming to Harvard's Houghton Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in 2021 on "500 Years of Women Authors, Self-Authorizing." My work appears in the *Los Angeles Review of Books* as well as a variety of 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 gives rise to acts of memorial recovery.