My Books

At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean
My new book about Shakespeare and "blue cultural studies."

Romance for Sale in Early Modern
England
My study of prose fiction and the
book market in the age of Shakespeare.

Rogues and Early Modern English
Culture
A book of essays on urban culture
and criminality that I edited with Craig Dionne
of Eastern Michigan University.
My New Projects
Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550-1750
An exhibtion of rare books and maritime artifacts that I will be designing and curating for the Folger Shakespeare Library's public gallery space in the summer of 2010. The show will be open to the public on June 10, 2010, with an opening gala planned for Monday June 14.
Shipwreck and the Meanings of Ocean, 1552-1719
A larger-scale book that explores
maritime disaster from Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations
of the English Nation, a collection of historical
records first published in 1589, through Daniel Defoe’s Robinson
Crusoe (1719).
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