• Renaissance Literature
• Shakespeare
• Travel Literature
• Literary Theory

BOOKS

• Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Other books and edited collections

• Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare. Ed. with Karen Raber and Thomas Hallock. New York: Palgrave, forthcoming 2008.
• The Phoenix. Ed. with Lawrence Danson. The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor, (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2008).
• Explanatory notes and introduction for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Hamlet for The Norton Anthology of Drama (New York: Norton, forthcoming 2007).
• Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts. Ed. with Karen Raber. Boston: Bedford Press, 2004.
• Travel Knowledge: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period, 1500-1800. Ed. with Jyotsna Singh. New York: Palgrave Press, 2001.

Selected essays

• “Utopian Ecocriticism:  Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More’s Utopia.”  With Melissa L. Smith. Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare.  Ed. Thomas Hallock, Ivo Kamps, and Karen Raber.  New York:  Palgrave, forthcoming 2008.

• “Madness and Social Mobility in Twelfth Night.”Twelfth Night: Critical Essays. Ed. James Schiffer. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2008.

• “Governance in Measure for Measure”; “Geography and Religion in Measure for Measure.” Measure for Measure: Text and Contexts. Ed. with Karen Raber. Boston: Bedford Press, 2004.

• “New Historicizing the New Historicism; or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968?” New York: SUNY P, 2004. 159-89.

• “The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England.” Blackwell’s Companion to Shakespeare: The Histories. Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean Howard. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 4-25.

• “Colonizing the Colonizer: A Dutchman in Asia Portuguesa.” Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Kamps and Jyotsna Singh. New York: Palgrave P, 2001. 160-83.

• “I Love You Madly, I Love You to Death: Teaching Romeo and Juliet as Erotomania and Liebestod.” Approaches to Teaching Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Maurice Hunt. New York: MLA, 2000. 37-46.