Books
Publications
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Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
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Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
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The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024.
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The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature. Routledge, forthcoming 2025.
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Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions. Palgrave, forthcoming 2025.
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Historical Neurodiversity Studies: A New Paradigm. Under contract with Cambridge University Press, expected publication 2025.
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Shakespeare and Emotion and Affect Theory. Under contract with Bloomsbury, expected publication 2026.
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Early Modern Theories of Emotion: A Guide to Printed Sources and Elite English Thought. Under contract with Bloomsbury, expected publication 2027.
Edited Collections/Issues
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Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature. Co-edited with Bridget M. Bartlett and Laura Seymour. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, expected publication 2026.
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"Literature and Emotion." Special Issue of Emotion Review, 16.2 (2024).
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Co-edited with Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022.
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Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.
Articles/Chapters
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"Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies: A Preliminary Research Agenda." Co-written with Bridget M. Bartlett. Accepted by ELH, expected publication 2025.
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“Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Under contract, publication expected 2024.
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“What’s in a Name? Can ‘Universality’ Be Resuscitated?” Forthcoming in Style 58.3 (2024).
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“Negative Affect to Positive Resistance: Indignation in Césaire’s Une TempeÌ‚te." In The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literatures, ed. Jean-François Vernay, Donald R. Wehrs, and Isabelle Wentworth. New York: Routledge, 2024. 258-71.
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"Jealousy in Early Modern England." Studies in Philology 121.3 (2024): 432-463.
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“A Pre-Darwinian Account of the Facial Expression of Emotion: Thomas Wright’s The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604).” History of Psychology 27.3 (2024): 292-96.
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“Envy, Jealousy, and Emulation: Affective Rivalry in The Shepheardes Calender." SEL: Studies in English Literature1500-1900 62.2 (2024): 271-300.
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“Boundaries and Disgust in The Duchess of Malfi.” Review of English Studies 75.319 (2024): 184-197.
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“Just How Remarkable was the ‘Jealous Moor’? Othello, Jealousy, and Early Modern Racial Stereotypes. Shakespeare (2024). DOI: 10.1080/17450918.2024.2304029.
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“Close Reading: The Inveighing, Envying Martius in Coriolanus 3.3.94." Shakespeare 19.3 (2023): 377-386.
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“Envy, Beelzebub, and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 85.2 (2022): 347-357.
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“Social Reception.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 317-327.
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“Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions.” Co-written with Patrick Colm Hogan. In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-11.
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“Racial Disgust in Early Modern England: The Case of Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 224-245.
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“Envy, Leanness, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” Early Theatre 25.2 (2022): 67-82.
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“Envy in Early Modern England.” ELH 88.4 (2021): 845-878.
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“Solidarity as Ritual in the Late Elizabethan Court: Faction, Emotion, and the Essex Circle.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 121-135.
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"Introduction." Co-written with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 1-17.
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“A Strategic Compromise: Universality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Case for Modal Emotions in History of Emotion Research.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4.2 (2020): 231-251.
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“‘Something After’?: Hamlet and Dread.” In Hamlet and Emotions, ed. Paul Megna,Bríd Phillips, and R.S. White. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 229-249.
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“The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology 117.1 (2019): 115-126.
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“Fulke Greville the Courtier: Courting the Ghosts of Sidney and Essex.” In The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance, ed. Russ Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 210-226.
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“Historicism and Universals.” The Literary Universals Project. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. 2018.
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"Coriolanus and the Poetics of Disgust.” Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 198-215.
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"Friendship and Frustration: Counter-Affect in The Letters of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57.4 (2015): 412-432.
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"The Sidneys and Foreign Affairs, 1575-1578: An Unpublished Letter of Sir Henry Sidney." English Literary Renaissance 45.1 (2015): 90-119.
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"The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638." Modern Philology 112.1 (2014): 271-285.
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“The Rivalrous Emotions in Surrey's 'So Crewell Prison.’” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.1 (2014): 1-24.
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"'Not Cardinal, but King:' Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician Diplomatic Imagination." Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, ed. Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. 85-99.
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“Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method.” Renaissance Drama 41.1-2 (2013): 131-149.
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"Libels and the Essex Rising." Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 87-89.
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“Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart. 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 2:511-516.
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“Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492).” Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011): 79-114.
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“Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama.” Early Theatre 12.2 (2009): 117-134.
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“The Secret Chamber and Other Suspect Places: Materiality, Space, and the Fall of Catherine Howard.” Early Modern Women 4 (2009): 169-173.
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Public Writing
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“Shakespeare Knew What Modern Science Tells Us: Disability Discrimination is Fueled by Disgust.” Nursing Clio, August 9, 2023.
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“How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2023.
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“Corpse Medicine.” The Collation (Folger Shakespeare Library), January 17, 2023.
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“Why Are So Many People Delighted by Disgusting Things?” The Conversation, October 21, 2022.
Reviews
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"Paul Joseph Zajac, Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature: Reforming Contentment." The Spenser Review 54.2 (2024): https://spenserreview.org/article/id/94.
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"Richard Meek, Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture.” Review of English Studies 75.318 (2024):102-103.