Projects

• Community Commons

• Creative Health Collaborations

  (Arizona State University)

• Health Humanities Initiative

  (Arizona State University)

• Plagues, Epidemics, and Culture: Histories of Crisis and Care

  (Arizona State University)

• Undergraduate Certificate

  (Arizona State University)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (University College London)

  (King's College London)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (Dartmouth)

  (Dartmouth College)

biography

I am Associate Professor of English and Interim Director of the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, where I lead our Medical Humanities initiative and the Imagining Health project, a collaboration between the IHR and the Center for Humanities in Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. My research has focused on English Renaissance literature and culture, with particular attention to classical intertextuality, the history of emotions, and gender studies. I am writing a book on the history of well-being and happiness, particularly as these emotions are defined and redefined through Shakespeare. I am engaged in cultural analysis of the history of positive emotions through the integration of Affect Studies and Intertextuality and reception studies.

research interests

History of Emotion, Affect Studies, Well-being, Positive Affect, English Renaissance literature and culture, classical intertextuality, gender studies.