Research & Publications

BOOKS

Recipe Poetics and the Making of Race in Early Modern English Drama (in progress)

A monograph on recipes, crafting epistemologies, and race-making in early modern English drama. Currently in progress with the support of the RaceB4Race First Book Institute made possible through the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network.

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

Shakespeare, Race, and Science: The Study of Nature and/as the Making of Race
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie, Oxford UP, 2024

On Shakespeare’s Legacy, Critical Race, and Collective Futures
Anniversary Issue: On Shakespeare’s First Folio and Early Modern Critical Race Studies, ed. Noémie Ndiaye, Shakespeare Quarterly vol. 74, no. 3 (2023), pp. 264-280.

Teaching Recipes, Race, and Erasure in the Early Modern Classroom
Teaching Early Modern Women Writers Today, ed. Liza Blake, special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching vol. 28 no. 2 (2021): 61-79.

Glass Bellies and Artificial Wombs: Gender, Science, and Reproduction in Early Modern Alchemical Performance
Science and Performance, ed. Coleman Nye, special issue of Performance Matters vol. 3 no. 2 (2017): 41-56.

Discandying Cleopatra: Preserving Cleopatra’s Infinite Variety in Shakespeare’s Antony and CleopatraStudies in Philology vol. 113 no. 3 (2016): 595-633. (Honorable mention prize for best article in the field of early modern women and gender, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women)

“Navigating Past, Potential, and Paradise: The Gendered Epistemologies of Discovery and Creation in Francis Godwin’s Man in the Moone and Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Gendering Time and Space in Early Modern England, eds. Katherine R. Larson and Alysia Kolentsis, special issue of Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme vol. 35 no. 1 (2012): 113-138.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating,” in Food and Literature, ed. Gitanjali Shahani, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 270-286.

FELLOWSHIPS

Before ‘Farm to Table’ Short-Term Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019 • Cultures of Culinary Preservation: Domestic Arts, Foreign Foodways, and Race in Early Modern Britain

Charles Montgomery Gray Short-Term Fellow, Newberry Library, 2019 • Cartographic Games: Visualizing World-Division in Seventeenth-Century English Geographical Playing Cards




PUBLIC WRITING

The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science, and Medicine
Contributing author