Academic CV
Education
University of Cambridge, PhD in English, 2015 to 2019
Dissertation title: ‘The Hidden History of Women Editing Shakespeare, 1800-1950’
Supervisor: Dr Jason Scott-Warren
King’s College London, MA in Shakespeare Studies (Distinction), 2013-2014
Thesis Title: An Edition of Act IV of Philip Massinger’s The Duke of Milan
Supervisor: Professor Gordon McMullan
Tufts University, BA in Drama, 2005-2009
Publications
Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’: A New History of the Shakespearean Text (monograph), Cambridge University Press, 2021/2 [Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement (6 October 2022); Shakespeare Quarterly (73.3-4); Parergon (39.2)]
‘‘Edith Rickert, John Manly, and Women’s Scholarly Networks’ in Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, ed. by Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim, Palgrave Macmillan (2022)
Review of Zachary Lesser, Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1916, Bibliography in the Longue Durée, in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 35 (2022): 232-235
‘“All the Youth of England are on Fire” (for Shakespeare): Evelyn Smith’s Henry V,’ The Hare: An Online Journal of Untimely Reviews, 5.3, 2021
‘Katharine Lee Bates and Women’s Editions of Shakespeare for Students’ in Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England, ed. by Valerie Wayne, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare (2020)
‘A correction to the identity of “Mrs. Furnivall” in Harvard’s Houghton Library Archives’, Notes and Queries, Volume 65, Issue 3, 1 September 2018, Pages 401–402
Editorial, Bibliographical, and Public Humanities Work
Co-Editor, The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Revised Edition, ed. by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, Bloomsbury Publishing (2022)
‘John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea (1658)’, Early Modern Female Book Ownership blog, 4 January 2022
‘Precarity, Privilege, and Publication’, fifteeneightyfour blog (CUP), 21 December 2021
Curator and Researcher, Rasmussen-Hines Collection: Private Collection of Prof. Eric Rasmussen and Victoria Hines (2021-Present) [@_RHCollection on Twitter]
Editorial Curator, The Sonnet Project, Jermyn Street Theatre, March-August 2020 as part of their online Brave New World season. Posted daily on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. (See press coverage here, here, here, and here.)
‘Doubt and Disillusionment in Postwar France’, 360° Viewfinder: The Killer (dir. Darko Tresnjak), Theatre for a New Audience, 2014
‘Sources: Timur the Lame’, 360° Viewfinder: Tamburlaine (dir. Michael Boyd), Theatre for a New Audience, 2014
Interviews and Media
‘A Woman’s Voice May Do Some Good’, Shakespeare Unlimited [Folger Shakespeare Library’s podcast]
‘New book celebrates the lost work of Shakespeare’s female editors’, article by Allison Flood for the Books section of The Guardian, 9 December 2021
Interview with Andy Kesson for A Bit Lit digital platform, September 2019
Interviewer, An Evening with Actor Simon Russell Beale, Cambridge Arts Theatre, February 2017
Invited Speaker
“Editing Shakespeare: A Conversation with Shakespeare in Prison Alums,” presented by Detroit Public Theatre, 14 July 2023
‘Shakespeare’s “Lady Editors”’, given for the Shakespeare Conversations series at County College of Morris (NJ), 28 April 2022
‘A Tangled Web: Women Editors and the New Shakspere Society’, given at Connecticut College, October 2019
‘Recovering Women Editors of Shakespeare’, given at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, October 2019
‘Daughter of Lamb, Daughter of Bowdler: Charlotte Yonge Edits Shakespeare’, given at the Charles Lamb Society’s annual Study Day, London, December 10, 2016
‘Women Editors of Shakespeare’ given at Shakespeare for all ages and all times, Cambridge University Library, April 23, 2016
Teaching
Guest Lecturer, ‘Women and the New Bibliography’ for ‘Making Shakespeare’ Module, Professor Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, November 2021
Guest Lecturer, ‘Editing and Gender’ for Bibliography and Literary Research Methods Course, Professor Heidi Craig, Texas A&M, November 2021
Guest Lecturer, “Women Editing Hamlet, or Hamlet 2 (and 3, and 4, and 5…)’,” for ENGL 3563: Shakespeare, Professor Dianne Mitchell, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 2021
Co-Lecturer, “William Shakespeare and Giuseppe Verdi’s Othello: An Analysis,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Georgia, March 2020
Guest Lecturer, “Theatre and Culture: Rise from Ritual,” Professor Virginia Anderson, Connecticut College, October 2019
Substitute Teacher, Grades 9-12, Athens Academy, 2019 to Present
Undergraduate dissertation supervisor, Cambridge, 2016 to 2019
Substitute Teacher, Grades 9-12, Athens Academy, 2014-15
Conference Papers
“The Walls of Baynard’s Castle: Anne Clifford, Ruth Raworth, and Their Books.” Early Modern Women and their Books Panel, organized by Martine van Elk, Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023
‘The Social Lives of Shakespeare Editors.’ The Shakespeare Editor: Lives and Labors Panel, organized by Claire M. L. Bourne and Molly G. Yarn, Shakespeare Association of American Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, April 2022
‘Revolutions and Thunderstorms: Personal Lives and Public Editorial Work,’ USTC Book Conference, Gender and the Book Trades, University of St. Andrews, 16-19 June 2021
‘The Citational Ouroborous: Circular Citation in Collation and Textual Notes.’ For ‘The Politics of Textual Editing, Bibliography, and Book History’ seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Conference, April 2021
‘‟We are their parents and original”: Textual Reproduction and Editorial Taxonomy.’ For ‘Edition/Copy: New Approaches to Reading and Editing Early Modern Books’ seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Conference, April 2020
‘‟A Thorough Piece of Work”: Katharine Lee Bates and the Revaluation of Student Editions of Shakespeare.’ For ‘Women and Book History’ seminar, Shakespeare Association of America Conference, March 2018, Seminar Participant
‘Ghosts in the Margins: Early Women Editors of Shakespeare’, Paper at the 2016 British Shakespeare Association Conference
Events and Conference Sessions [As Organiser]
Seminar: “Embodied Scholarship in a Dis/Embodied Age.” International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, 20-22 July 2023
Seminar: “Shakespeare’s Editors” [with Claire M. L. Bourne, Penn State]. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, April 2022
Panel: “The Shakespeare Editor: Lives and Labors” [with Claire M. L. Bourne, Penn State]. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, April 2022
Funding
The Katherine Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades, Bibliographical Society of America, 2023
The Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women and Mellon Foundation Fellow, Newberry Library, 2022-2023
James M. Osborn Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2022
Katherine F. Pantzer Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2023
University of Chicago Library Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship, Summer 2017
Alumni Award for Contribution to the Arts, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 2018
Travel Bursary, Faculty of English, Cambridge, 2018
Thriplow Fund Award, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 2018
George Bidder Fund Award, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 2017
Research Bursary, Faculty of English, Cambridge, 2017
Morris True Brown Prize, Tufts University, 2009
Dramaturgy
Interview with director Tom Littler (Program), Romeo and Juliet, The Marlowe Society, Cambridge Arts Theatre, January 2018
Script Adaptation, A Cure for a Cuckold, The Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, October 2017
Script Adaptation, Ralph Roister Doister, The Marlowe Society, University of Cambridge, March 2017
Program Note, Edward II, The Marlowe Society, Cambridge Arts Theatre, February 2017
Script Adaptation (with Tom Littler and Gabbie Bird), All’s Well That Ends Well, Reading at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, November 2016
Employment
Freelance Indexer, Editor, and Proofreader, 2021-Present
Social Media Manager, Rasmussen-Hines Collection, 2021-Present
Social Media Manager, Renaissance Research Group, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 2016-2017
Digital Copy Editor, Drama Online, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
Humanities Intern, Theatre for a New Audience (NYC), 2014
Editorial Intern, Academic Division, Bloomsbury Publishing (NYC), 2013
Editorial Intern, Arden Shakespeare/Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing (London), 2013