Early modern literature and cultural history; sixteenth and seventeenth century travel writing; cross-cultural encounters, mobility, race, and identity; scholarly editing.
Spanish early modern art, literature, moral and political thought, and mysticism; seventeenth-century court culture, particularly Calderón de la Barca and Velázquez; Baltasar Gracián and the Jesuits
Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
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