About

I am interested in how Shakespeare's works have been presented to readers and audiences, particularly in "new" media. My research encompasses early modern prologues, introductions to eighteenth-century print editions of Shakespeare's works, and the interviews and short films often broadcast alongside digital theatre performances of Shakespeare. My doctoral thesis explored the development of Shakespearean paratexts - including short films, live interviews, trailers - in live theatre broadcast productions from 2009-2019. My current research investigates how editors in the long eighteenth century use paratexts (introductions, prefaces, footnotes) to articulate their roles in relation to the text and to record networks of editorial collaboration and contention.

My forthcoming book, Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value (2024, Cambridge University Press), explores how theatre institutions and adapters have negotiated the tricky value of Shakespeare's canonically marginal plays. It questions how these plays are presented to audiences in line with narratives of Shakespeare's cultural centrality in Britain and other Anglophone contexts. In so doing, I set contemporary broadcast paratexts produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in conversation with Restoration prefaces, editorial introductions, and Augustan tracts of literary criticism to consider how paratexts are used to mediate Shakespearean value in different forms.

I have taught at the University of Warwick since 2021. Prior to my role here, I taught at the University of Birmingham, Coventry University, and the University of Nottingham. In 2023, I won a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence. I have previously been a research assistant on the AHRC-funded network, Adapting the Classics, and co-edited a special edition of the journal Adaptation stemming from this project. In 2022, I was awarded an M4C Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham to undertake work on the (anti)sociability of Shakespeare's eighteenth century editors.

Selected Publications

Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024)

'Framing Shakespeare in New Digital Canons: Paratextual Conventions of RSC Live and NT Live', Shakespeare Bulletin 40.2 (2022), pp. 239-67.

'A View from the Stage: Interviews with Performers', Shakespeare and the "Live" Theatre Broadcast Experience, edited by Pascale Aebischer, Susanne Greenhalgh, and Laurie E. Osborne (London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 95-101.

Education

Ph.D Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

M.A. Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

B.A. University of York