• Ph.D., English, Temple University, 2009
• M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of New Orleans, 2001
• B.A. English, University of New Orleans, 1998

Book

• Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Arguing the Courtship of Elizabeth and Alençon: An Early Modern Marriage Debate and the Problem of the Historical Public Sphere.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 42.1 (2012): 26-43. 
• “Childhood Reflections: Elizabeth I’s The Glass of the Sinful Soul and the Foundations of Her Rhetoric.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 37.1 (2011). 31-49. 
• “A Conservative Revolution: Elizabeth I and the Making of Religious and Rhetorical Truth.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 10 (2007): 175-196.

Book Reviews

• Milton and the Politics of Public Speech. Helen Lynch. Seventeenth-Century News 73.3-4 (2015). 
• Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism. Feisal G. Mohamed. Seventeenth-Century News 70.1-2 (2012): 5-8. 
• Shakespeare’s Freedom. Stephen Greenblatt. Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 50.2 (May 2011): 44-46. 
• Visionary Milton: Essays on Prophecy and Violence. Edited by Peter E. Medine, John T. Shawcross, and David V. Urban. Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 50.1 (November 2010): 37-38.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Elizabeth Brooke Wyatt.” A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650, ed. Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Michele Osherow. Farnham: Ashgate. Forthcoming.
• “Christiana Bruce Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire.” A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650, ed. Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Michele Osherow. Farnham: Ashgate. Forthcoming.

Creative Writing

• “Ian Was Pointing a Gun.” Over My Dead Body, The Mystery Magazine Online. December 2014. 
• “Neighbors.” The Apple Valley Review 8.1 (2013). 
• “Do the Charleston.” Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from Post-Katrina New Orleans. Joe Longo, Jarret Lofstead, eds. New Orleans: Lavender Ink. 2006. 18-19.
• “Let’s Take the Boy Fishing.” Ellipsis 24 (2001): 41.