Biography

I came to the University of Surrey in 2007 and really enjoy my role here. We have two exciting and growing BA programmes in English Literature and English Literature with Creative Writing, as well as two very successful MA programmes in communication. There is a thriving research culture with The Surrey Morphology Group and the British Institute for Humour Studies. My own research is aided by the fact that I'm so close to the British Library. 

Research Interests

Early Modern Literature

Women's Writing

Drama

Postcolonial Studies

Publications

Books

      Margaret Atwood, Northcote Publishing, London, 2009      

   Women’s Writing and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: relative values, Palgrave,

            London, 2007

            Black British Canon? (ed. with Gail Low), Palgrave, London, 2006

            Sidney to Milton, 1580-1660, Palgrave, London, 2002

            Casebook on Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'The Taming of the

            Shrew', Macmillan, London, 2001

            The Selected Poems of Sylvia Pankhurst (ed. primary text), Pankhurst Trust,

            Manchester, 1999. Published by the Pankhurst Centre and sold in aid of the

            Pankhurst Trust

            Readings in Renaissance Women’s Drama: Criticism, History and Performance,

            1594-1998 (ed. with S.P.Cerasano), Routledge, London, 1998

            Women Poets of the Renaissance (ed. primary texts), J.M.Dent, London, 1998

            Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword,  Macmillan, London, 1996

            Read a chapter from Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword on Surrey Scholarship Online

            Renaissance Drama By Women (ed. primary texts with S.P.Cerasano), Routledge,

            London, 1995

            The Renaissance (ed.), Bloomsbury, London, 1992

            The Tales of the Clerk and the Wife of Bath (ed. Chaucer's primary text), Routledge,

            London, 1992

            Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private in the English Renaissance (ed. with

            S.P.Cerasano), Harvester, Hemel Hempstead, 1992

Recent Essays and Articles

            ‘A scaffold, a banqueting house, a brothel and the East: innovative playing spaces in Early

            Modern Englishwomen’s drama’ in History of British Women’s Writing (1500 - 1610), ed. Caroline

            Bicks and Jennifer Summit, London, Palgrave (2010)

            ‘”Fornication in my owne defence”: Rape in the Cavendish Family Writings,’ in Expanding the

            Canon of Early Modern Women, ed. Paul Salzman, London, Ashgate (2010)

            ‘New Perspectives on Drama’ in History of British Women’s Writing (1610-1690), ed. Mihoko

            Suzuki, London, Palgrave (2009)

      ‘Orange Women, Female Spectators, and Roaring Girls: Women and Theater,’ Medieval and

            Renaissance Drama in England, 21 (2009)

      ‘The Liminal Woman in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory,’ Sidney Journal, 26 (2009), pp.65-82

   ‘The good Lady Lumley’s desire: Iphigeneia and the Nonsuch banqueting house’ in

    Heroines of the Golden StAge: Women and Drama in England and Spain: 1500 – 1700, ed. Rina

    Walthaus and Marguerite Corporaal Barcelona, Reichenberger Press, 2008, pp.111-128.

             ‘”But now I see that heaven in her did link/ A spirit and a person”: Elizabeth Cary présentée

             comme une saint’ in Le mythe et la plume. L’écriture et les femmes en Grand-Bretagne (1540-

             1640), ed. Pascal Caillet, Armel Dubois-Nayt et Jean-Claude Mailhol, Valenciennnes, Presses

             Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2007.

            ‘”To have her children with her: Elizabeth Cary and familial influence,’ in Elizabeth Cary, ed.

              Heather Wolfe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp.223-241       

            ‘Women of the Dundee Howff,’ History Scotland 7:6, 2007, pp.36-41.