Education

2010                D.Phil. in English Language and Literature
University of Oxford

2005                M.Phil. in European Literature and Culture
University of Cambridge

2004                B.A. magna cum laude, with distinction
English, French, and Medieval & Renaissance Studies
The Ohio State University

Blog Posts

    Publications

    MONOGRAPHS

    The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography 1440-1627 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
     

    JOURNAL ARTICLES

    “Blood in the Moonlight: Hannibal as Queer Noir,” with EJ Nielsen, Quarterly Review of Film & Video (2018).

    “Fannish Paratexts and their Premodern Roots,” The Journal of Fandom Studies, 5.2 (2017): 157-74.

    “Bloodlines and Blood Spilt: Historical Retelling and the Rhetoric of Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy,” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 30 (2017): 210-25.

    “Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe,” with Jessica McCall, Critical Survey 28.2: Creative/Critical Shakespeares: 27-38.

    “Pickled Red Herring,” Critical Survey 28.2: Creative/Critical Shakespeares: 45-66.

    “Tragedy, Transgression, and Women’s Voices: The cases of Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor Cobham,” Viator 47.2 (2016): 277-303. (link)

    “History Play: critical and creative engagement with Shakespeare’s tetralogies in transformative fanworks,” Shakespeare 13.3 (2017): 210-25. Published online on 16 March 2016. (link)

     

    EDITED COLLECTIONS

    Becoming: Essays on NBC’s Hannibal, with EJ Nielsen (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, forthcoming).

    The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens, with Valerie Schutte (New York: Palgrave, 2018).

    Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

    Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present, with Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, and Malini Roy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015).

    BOOK CHAPTERS

    “‘Nothing hath begot my something grief’: Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy,” with Lea Luecking Frost, The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens, ed. Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte (New York: Palgrave, 2018).

    “‘Men go to battle, women wage war’: Gender Politics in The White Queen and its Fandom,” Premodern Rulers, Postmodern Viewers, ed. Janice North, Elena Woodacre, and Karl Alvestad (New York: Palgrave, 2018).

    “‘Of whom proud Rome hath boasted long’: Intertextual Conversations and Popular History,” Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England, ed. Kristen A. Bennett (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015). (PDF: KVMFinn – Intertextual Conversations and Popular History (2015))

    “‘A Queen in Jest’: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI and Richard III,” Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). (PDF: KVMudan – A queen in jest (2011))

    “‘So mutable is that sexe’: Queen Elizabeth Woodville in Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More’s History of King Richard the Third,” The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, ed. Elizabeth Oakley-Brown and Louise Wilkinson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2009). (PDF: KVMudan – So mutable is that sexe (2009))

     

    TRADE PUBLICATIONS

    “High and Mighty Queens of Westeros,” Game of Thrones vs. History: Written in Blood, ed. Brian A. Pavlac and Elizabeth Lott (Oxford: Wiley, 2017).

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