English literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, especially Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson; post-medieval palaeography; bibliography and the history of the book
Elected 2010
Italian Renaissance literature; the Art of Memory; literature and philosophy, the utopian tradition, medieval vernacular preaching, chivalric poetry, treatises on women and love; literary and visual portraits; the relationship between literature and the
The century from 1660-1765, primarily in France and its colonies, from perspectives that include women’s history and the history of the book
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing
